"The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt."

-- Raymond Chandler

#War Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Iâ€™m so used to being misunderstood,”
“Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.”
“The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.”
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
“Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
“I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.”

Source : Speech in Ilford (13 March 1982), from Simon Heffer, "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell", p. 853, 1999.
“We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!”

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