Elysium Memorable Quotes & Sayings

The cotton gin made it possible to grow medium- and short-staple cotton commercially, which led to the spread of the cotton plantation from a small coastal area to most of the South. As cotton planting expanded, so did slavery, and slavery's becoming the central institution of the Southern economy was the central precondition of the Civil War. What — Nicholas Lemann

We can only love the way we were created to if we are first whole in ourselves. — Aaron M. Patterson

EGGS! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance! — Dylan Moran

I'm married, so I tend not to hit on every girl. — Simon Helberg

in Chicago in 1893. While they introduced the American people to such new words as reincarnation, nirvana, and Karma, the new religions also echoed the creed of self-reliance that had been an article of faith in American religion and culture for almost a century. — George Pendle

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny. — Josh McDermitt

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years. — Robertson Davies

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. — Laura Hillenbrand

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination. — Louis Nizer

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society. — Maajid Nawaz