Gary Webb Quotes

#1. God dwells in the details.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#2. Are you saying that the people here aren't desperate? I think you're wrong. I think they are and they just don't know it.
Oh, they're desperate, all right, but so desperate that they're clinging to what they have.

Julianna Baggott

#3. Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

Gary Webb

#4. Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

Minnie Pearl

#5. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us, if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away?

Ellen Hopkins

#6. Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little?

Mark Strand

#7. First thing we need to do," said Bean, "is split up." "No," said Petra. "I've done this before, Petra. Going into hiding. Keeping from getting caught." "And if we're together we're too identifiable, la la la," she said. "Saying 'la la la' doesn't mean it isn't true.

Orson Scott Card

#8. We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

Gary Webb

#9. We become what we think about.

Earl Nightingale

#10. You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

Gary Webb

#11. After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

Gary Webb

#12. Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

Annie Lennox