Marji Satrapi Persepolis Quotes

#1. Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Mitch Albom

#2. I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

Victoria Beckham

#3. In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

Simon Schama

#4. I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

Jim Gaffigan

#5. Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Robert Wyatt

#6. Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

Giacomo Casanova

#7. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Jacques Barzun

#8. Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.

Aristotle.

#9. I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

Johnny Cash

#10. Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Dolly Parton

#11. Never assume someone is smarter than you.

Bethenny Frankel

#12. The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#13. Something was moving quietly through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet; several somethings in fact,

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