Barracoons Slavery Quotes & Sayings

It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it. — Neil Burger

What matters is the imaginative truth. — Edna O'Brien

[ ... ] nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business. — Steven Pinker

When war begins, then hell openeth. — George Herbert

Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book. — Mary Sisney

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another. — Euripides

Saints are sinners who kept on going. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything is meaningless — Anonymous

I'm just surprised your parents let you go online, Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn't exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony. — Cassandra Clare