Intensively Distributed Quotes

#1. Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

Walter Lippmann

#2. No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

John Milton

#3. A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

E.L. Doctorow

#4. I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

Rufus Wainwright

#5. Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two.

Susanna Clarke

#6. How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

Douglas Brinkley

#7. The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy ... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

Oscar Niemeyer

#9. The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

Venus Williams

#10. Falcon swooped down and caught a young quail

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

#12. If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#13. I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

Michael McKean

#14. In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

Naomi Wolf