Wharf Tavern Quotes & Sayings

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier. — Noam Chomsky

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound. — Charles E. Burchfield

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime. — Glenn Greenwald

Nonviolent ideals were cheap to hold if you were a scientist, living inside the Protego bubble cast by the police officers and soldiers whose actions you had the luxury to question. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information. — Dan Webster

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. — Niklas Zennstrom

Becoming a person, of course, means finding your people, and your place among them — Jeffrey Eugenides

I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever. — Kate McGahan