Richard Rodriguez Days Of Obligation Quotes & Sayings

To be listened to is ... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating ... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. — Robert C. Murphy

You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer. — Lisa See

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire

Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer! — Daniel Handler

Clay Blaisdell Western — Stephen King

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock. — Julie Kagawa

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — John H. Reagan

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed. — Douglas Engelbart

After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony. — Richard Rodriguez

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. — Bob Beauprez