Angolans Walking Quotes & Sayings

They were smoking cigarettes in the deliberate self-conscious way of smoking teenagers: — John Darnielle

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid. — Conor Oberst

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace — Elizabeth Bear

It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies. — Anne Lamott

No matter the trial you face, do not lose the peace and rhythm of life. — Eric R. Asher

I've swam with great white sharks. — Rob James-Collier

here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up boll weevil, and a bent pocketknife. — James McBride

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. — Moby

We love things because they reflect our imaginative love in their expression. — Debasish Mridha

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service
as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate
its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting. — Lewis H. Lapham

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain. — John Armstrong

The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas