Terminado En Quotes & Sayings

Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, and animalistic. No classical music for us - no walking around National Trust properties or buying reclaimed flooring. We don't have nostalgia. We don't do yesterday. We can't bear it. We don't want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful: dying in mines and slums without literacy or the vote. Without dignity. It was all so desperate then. That's why the present and the future is for the poor - that's the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better later. We live now - for our own instant hot, fast treats, to pep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio. — Caitlin Moran

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other. — John Marsden

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material. — Jay Parini

The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy. — Nadeem Aslam

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can. — Tim Tebow

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. — Sid Caesar

I didn't know what I was doing in New York. — Sylvia Plath

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do. — Andrew Wyatt

Leaders have made prayer to look very spiritual; they have made people to think that prayer should LOOK spiritual to get answers. — Paul Silway

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! — Jay Leno

I heard her ask Lord Nebel how many sheep he was running on his estate. He didn't even know he was running sheep."
"I have sheep, but from the look of it, all they do is eat. No running. — Julia Quinn

Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what's good. Time heals all wounds, but often it's only by the application of the grave, and while we live some hurts live with us, burning, making us twist and turn to escape them. And as we twist, we turn into other men. — Mark Lawrence