La Linen Quotes

#1. I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.

Fredi Washington

#2. If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Emile M. Cioran

#3. We know where a song's popularity starts, and we can watch it spread," Titus told me. Take, for example, Lorde, the out-of-nowhere sensation of 2013. Shazam's engineers can rewind time to trace the international contagion of her first single, "Royals,

Anonymous

#4. The Carrion Spike may already be in motion," Tarkin said, squaring his shoulders. As if in echo of Tarkin's posture of readiness, Vader planted his fists on his hips. "Then we have no time to spare.

James Luceno

#5. It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

Benjamin Harrison

#6. If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

Ed Harris

#7. Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

George Santayana

#8. George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

Mark Shields