Monbiot Feral Quotes & Sayings

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists. — Brian De Palma

If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency. — Pat Nixon

When a beginner knows what he needs, he proves more intelligent than an absent-minded sage — Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested. — Joy Harjo

When children are demonised by the newspapers, they are often described as feral,' wrote George Monbiot in the Guardian.6 'But feral is what children should be: it means released from captivity or domestication. Those who live in crowded flats, surrounded by concrete, mown grass and other people's property, cannot escape their captivity without breaking the law. Games and explorations that are seen as healthy in the countryside are criminalised in the cities. Children who have never visited the countryside live under constant restraint. — Gary Younge

When she opened her eyes, she was in shadow - shadow, but dry and warm, thanks to the massive wing shielding her from the elements and the heat of Abraxos's breath filling the space like a little furnace. He was still snoozing - a deep, heavy sleep. She had to brush ice crystals off his outstretched wing before he came awake. — Sarah J. Maas

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.' — Kate Atkinson

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13. — Chuck Palahniuk

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most. — Joshua Foer

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. — Dave Eggers

Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Last summer, her research uncovered articles in the Paynesville Press in 1986 and 1987. They detailed six unsolved sexual assaults on boys just two years before Wetterling's abduction. — Anonymous