Alex Connors Quotes

#1. The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."
~Louis D. Brandeis

Louis D. Brandeis

#2. I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

Michael Scott

#3. Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Noah Levine

#4. When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

Nikki Glaser

#5. My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Nancy Farmer

#6. 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

Ed Robertson

#7. You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

Sonya Hartnett

#8. I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. I settle for a radio station that's currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.

Mark Capell

#10. There are good and bad things in all political systems.

Herman Wouk

#11. Believe me, Alex. I am trying. My fucking bed is too big for me. It feels empty now. I can't believe I'm even saying that, but whatever. That's how I feel. I want you back. I want you to move in. I want you with me again.

Tijan

#12. I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

Studs Terkel

#13. Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

Emily St. John Mandel