Plague Page 261 Quotes

#1. (Ibid. on using the verb to be in this culturally envenomed way, too, as in 'I'll Be There For You,' which has become the sort of empty spun-sugar shibboleth that communicates nothing except a certain unreflective sappiness in the speaker.

David Foster Wallace

#2. I just sing. I sing whatever I can.

Sarah Vaughan

#3. Now and then I'd catch my mother looking at my like she was thinking about her life, like she was about to say something, but she never did. I didn't expect it. Sometimes it's better not to go back
just settle accounts as they are, call it even.

Mark Slouka

#4. I want that at my funeral," said Pam. "I want to be carried out on the shoulders of six stalwart young men. Preferably in loincloths.

Leslie Meier

#5. It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

William Graham Sumner

#6. Life is based on comparisons

Henri Charriere

#7. It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

Dalai Lama

#8. I don't like being the center of attention.

Jessica Alba

#9. The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.

Barack Obama

#10. Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.

Nicolas Cage

#11. Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.

John McKnight

#12. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

#13. There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Albert Camus