"You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee."

-- Whoopi Goldberg

#Book Quotes #History Quotes #Committees Quotes

“It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.”
“There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.”
“For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.”
“His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut ***** and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty.”
“I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy.”
“No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.”
“One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.”

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