Salim Ali Quotes & Sayings

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem. — Joe Hill

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best. — Rob Bell

If you want to save seeds from year to year, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties. The words "heirloom" and "open-pollinated" are sometimes used interchangeably, but they don't necessarily mean the same thing. "Heirloom" refers to a variety that was popular before World War II. "Open-pollinated" refers to a plant that produces stable characteristics from generation to generation. Heirlooms are usually open-pollinated, because hybridization in edible plants didn't become common until the 1970s. — Katie Elzer-Peters

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers. — Virginia Woolf

Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation, John McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation. — Micheal O Muircheartaigh

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block ... pretty funny. — P. J. O'Rourke

Yet you cannot let go. Why? I can let go. I can let you drop so easily. That is because I do not see you as a person but rather an appliance that I switch on and off. I don't need you for two months so I switch you off and put you away. You do not trouble my consciousness. Not once. So when I have subjected you to another bout of silent treatment and you are sat weeping into your glass of pinot grigio wondering aloud if I am thinking about you, I can help you with that. No I am not. You no longer exist to me. You never existed. — H.G. Tudor

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross. — Pamela Anderson

I opened the diary that is my life this morning, and began again with the words - I am grateful. — Sherri Lynea Gerek

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. — Kate Millett

Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative. — Eckhart Tolle

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself. — Peter Sotos

Death takes away the commonplace of life. — Alexander Smith

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know? — Hillary DePiano