Shamim Osman Quotes

#1. Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

Terence McKenna

#2. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

C.S. Lewis

#3. The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant ... There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.

Brandon Mull

#6. Books make the soul float.

Alan Bradley

#7. Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

Walter Lippmann

#8. She shook my hand, loosely, like Indians do, using only her fingers. Not like those tight grips that white people use to prove something. She touched my hand like she was glad to see me, not like she wanted to break bones.

Sherman Alexie

#9. They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

Chris Hedges

#10. don't put all your eggs in one bastard

Meredith Schorr