Sankara Eye Quotes

#1. I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.

Adrian McKinty

#2. Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

Patti Smith

#3. Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all.

Robert Mugabe

#4. You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

Bernie Sanders

#6. as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: "Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones.

Brooke Gladstone

#7. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

Thomas Sankara

#8. The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Raymond Carver