"You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people."

-- Angela Johnson

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Boring Quotes

“You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.”

Source : "Terrorist or Peace-Maker? An Exclusive Interview with Gerry Adams, Former Head of the I.R.A". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2009.
“I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.”
“I do have a lot of Australian friends.”
“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”
“In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing. ... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.”
“It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.”
“after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc.”
“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. â€¦ You are captivesâ€”and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?â€”your captivity and the captivity of the world.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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