Amerika's Quotes

#1. Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

Assata Shakur

#2. I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Robert Fisk

#3. Phil Needle supposed what he meant was that he wanted to be God, just long enough to find his daughter. It was not a prayer but a promotion. This was why nobody liked God: they wanted his job.

Daniel Handler

#4. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.

Michael Crichton

#5. It's about pressing palms, bro. Getting the funds under management. Money into the market. After that, the shit's on autopilot.

Michael Pitre

#6. I wouldn't be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

Sol Luckman

#7. At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.

Sachin Kundalkar

#8. Art is everywhere.

A.D. Posey

#9. And then she kissed him," he murmurs, "and all manner of thought left his head. It was a kiss he had dreamed about, but it was a thousand times better than his dreams. And he was ruined in all the best ways ... and he'd never be the same again.

Beth Michele

#10. Now, her bedside table had been pulled into the middle of the room to be used as a desk for these proceedings, and the supervisor sat behind it.

Franz Kafka

#11. On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

Hafez

#12. Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Shah Rukh Khan

#13. Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

Assata Shakur

#14. I explained that he was Chinese, and she asked if the movie would be in Chinese.
"No," I said, "he lives in America. In California. He's been there since he was a baby."
"Then what does it matter if he's Chinese?"
"Well," I said, "he's got ... you know, a sensibility.

David Sedaris

#15. Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Jim Harrison

#16. He'd built a wall around his heart to protect it, and she was slowly brick by brick, smile by smile, laugh by laugh, kindness by kindness, tearing it down. Tomorrow he'd refortify it.
Tonight he simply wanted the haven she could provide.

Lorraine Heath

#17. What is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.

Suzanne Collins

#18. The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

Watchman Nee