Sparwasser 1974 Quotes

#1. The first revolution is when you change your mind

Gil Scott-Heron

#2. I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#3. There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

Dave Grohl

#4. It seemed like people could go one of two ways: Either freak out and start rioting, or they actually act like human beings in trouble out to, and look out for one another. When LA blacked out, there had been big time rioting. In New York, people had pulled together.

Jim Butcher

#5. I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

Payne Stewart

#6. It's not because we knew" Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. "It's because we did it.

Hugh Howey

#7. If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

#8. I learned, then, beyond question, that if all the property in the world were distributed, and an equal share given to everyone, the bulk of mankind would soon be destitute, and a few would have everything.

Kenneth Roberts

#9. Wanting to be a movie star ... answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

Frank Bidart

#10. Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.

Alan Ball

#11. It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn't want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only "something else" worth living.

Jackie Haze