Hitchhiking Ghosts Quotes

#1. Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

Tina Brown

#2. I'm thinking about how you sighed this little sigh when you sank into the feeling of us together. We both sank into that feeling together - I'll never forget that.

Carolyn Crane

#3. Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Henry Ford

#4. Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.

Eugene Walter

#5. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.

David Foster Wallace

#7. Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.

Joe Hill

#8. The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.

Michael Kimmel

#9. Thousands of miles away, in a crowded theater that thunders with applause for the man onstage, hidden in the shadows formed between disused pieces of scenery backstage, Celia Bowen curls herself into a ball and cries.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.

George Carlin

#11. Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.

Petina Gappah

#12. It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

Alain De Botton