Caliphate Podcast Quotes & Sayings

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general. — Shakira

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. — Paracelsus

I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema. — Bruce LaBruce

What mattered was the evolution of a relationship. — C.D. Reiss

The war machine is a concept that Deleuze and Guattari pulled from Pierre Clastres who said that indigenous and nomadic peoples live in such a way that war isn't a thing that sometimes interrupts peace, but war is actually a common condition that peace sometimes interrupts. And war isn't just lethal violence at all times, there's also a playful element to it. — Anonymous

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics. — Alanis Morissette

Historically, dust jackets are a new concern for authors; you don't see them much before the 1920s. And dust jacket is a strange name for this contrivance, as if books had anything to fear from dust. If you store a book properly, standing up, then the jacket doesn't cover the one part of the book that is actually exposed to dust, which is the top of the pages. So a dust jacket is no such thing at all; it is really a sort of advertising wrapper, like the brown paper sheath on a Hershey's bar. On this wrapper goes the manufacturer's name, the ingredients
some blithering about unforgettable characters or gemlike prose or gripping narrative
and a brief summation of who does what to whom in our gripping, unforgettable, gemlike object. — Paul Collins

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. — T.H. White

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it. — Caroline Knapp

Ayden saw me and his body slumped. "Oh, thank God." "Please," Matthias said. "I told you she's too hard to kill." "Aww," I said. "Thank you." Matthias offered me a sweet smile. "Just like a cockroach." — A&E Kirk