"I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women."

-- Annie Lennox

#People Quotes #Bird Quotes #Hiv Quotes

“People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.”
“I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.”
“I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.”
“I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.”
“Predictability brings about security.”
“I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.201, Univ of California Press
“You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.”
“Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.”

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