"Animals are like people because people are animals."

-- Barbara Gates

#Animal Quotes #People Quotes

“I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.”

Source : "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11
“I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.”
“I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.”
“They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”
“Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice. I can't do that myself. I'm lying to everybody. I write a paragraph, and then I rewrite that paragraph. I want to feel like I'm standing on firm ground before I move on to the next paragraph. Mentally, I have to do that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.”

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