2011 Tuscon Shooting Quotes

#1. There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.

Alasdair MacLean

#2. Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but ... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

Robert Wilson

#3. Tonight, I pushed Chloe's boundaries, and the truth was I pushed my own boundaries.

Al Daltrey

#4. Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Walter Kirn

#5. Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Walter Kirn

#6. In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

Michelle Visage

#7. A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Barack Obama

#8. If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

B.C. Forbes

#9. Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Elie Wiesel

#10. Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

Amy Chua

#11. The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.

Osho

#12. Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Margaret Heffernan

#13. People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.

Maya Angelou

#14. His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!

Major Thomas

#15. The incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. [T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.

Walter Kirn

#17. Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

#18. But could you not be mended?" asked the girl. "Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know," replied the Princess.

L. Frank Baum

#19. Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.

Ross Mathews

#20. This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Walter Kirn

#21. When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Walter Kirn