Petals famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.

  • And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

  • If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.

  • Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

  • I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This is because they are the source of the profits which make capitalism what it is. They can shut the system down, and at the same time they possess the unique knowledge needed to make it work in everyone's interests.

  • It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

  • We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.

  • The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

  • My favorite songs change every year.

  • I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.