"So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" -- and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy."

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Source : "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

Timothy Garton Ash

#Numbers Quotes #Leader Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.”
“Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated ...”
“We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.”

Source : FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Jul 11, 2011
“Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.”
“The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.”
“I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.”
“The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I knew that Mickalene's [Tomas] work would be able to encompass all the many states of being that are in the book.”
“I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.”

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