Downsiders Audiobook Quotes

#1. Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me

Ivan Doig

#2. The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Aldo Leopold

#3. Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Matt Taibbi

#4. If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Larry Brilliant

#5. There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

Chris Hardwick

#6. Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

Adam Goldberg

#7. I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Diana Wynne Jones

#8. People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Mary Lambert

#9. How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Jim Fowler

#10. I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

Greg Saunier