Micol Duncan Quotes & Sayings

Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios. — Frances Beinecke

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything. — Ezra Furman

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one. — Jimmy Hoffa

With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know. — Warwick Middleton

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish. — Frank Carson

My plans were put aside by the prospect of her return. Then she returned, to say that she had other plans. — Dan Adams

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses. — Avi

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. — Norman Vincent Peale

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock

Things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that's all. — Haruki Murakami

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it. — Henry David Thoreau

My parents are very even-keeled. You know, just kind of steady as she goes. — Tom Glavine

So understood, anarchism is the inheritor of the classical liberal ideas that emerged from the Enlightenment. It is part of a broader range of libertarian socialist thought and action that ranges from the left anti-Bolshevik Marxism of Anton Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, Paul Mattick, and others, to the anarcho-syndicalism that crucially includes the practical achievements of revolutionary Spain in 1936, reaching further to worker-owned enterprises spreading today in the Rust Belt of the United States, in northern Mexico, in Egypt, and in many other countries, most extensively in the Basque country in Spain, also encompassing the many cooperative movements around the world and a good part of feminist and civil and human rights initiatives. — Noam Chomsky

Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was indescribable; the house and garden would be dotted with poets, authors, artists, and playwrights arguing, painting, drinking, typing, and composing. Far from being the ordinary, charming people that Larry had promised, they all turned out to be the most extraordinary eccentrics who were so highbrow that they had difficulty in understanding one another. — Gerald Durrell