Gunless Countries Quotes

#1. Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

Richard Steele

#2. And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898

Oscar Wilde

#3. Tell me why ... I don't like Mondays ...

Bob Geldof

#4. When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

Wolfman Jack

#5. What's the haps, Alli? Writing your memoirs?"
"People who write memoirs should die.

Santino Hassell

#6. People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

James Baldwin

#7. All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Graham Norton

#8. I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.

August Wilson

#9. Bad writing is better than never writing. Bad writing can be improved, but if you never write, you'll never improve.

Caroline Hemingway

#10. Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

Taylor Mali