"In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books."

-- Elias Canetti

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.
“The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.”

Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
“Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.”
“I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time,”
“The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press
“I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, November 14, 2001.
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.”
“We must meet violence with violence.”

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