Rubin Hurricane Carter Book Quotes

#1. Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

Karen Tayleur

#2. Crown made my belly flutter even when I begged it to stop.
Until he opened his mouth.
When Crown opened his mouth, I wanted to bust him over the head with a lasagna pan.

Lila Felix

#3. Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Dennis Prager

#4. I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Jim McKelvey

#5. Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service ... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse

Angus Young

#6. I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman

#7. The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

Ibn Taymiyyah

#8. There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk.

Alan Bradley

#9. A man who is perpetually thinking of whether this race or that race is strong, of whether this cause or that
cause is promising, is the man who will never believe in anything long enough to make it succeed.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. It's all very well to say you are waiting; so am I waiting.' 'Father's a cowardy custard.' 'So are you a cowardy custard.' 'I'm not frightened.' 'Neither am I frightened.' 'Well, then, take it.' 'Well, then, you take it.

J.M. Barrie

#11. Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

Patti Smith

#12. What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Theodore Roethke

#13. I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

Alex Kingston

#14. Love and lists. Just remember, love and lists. Nothing else matters.

Tara Sivec