Tom Dispatch Quotes

#1. Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

Wilder Penfield

#2. He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.

Tracy Chevalier

#3. I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Morgan Freeman

#4. There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

Shanola Hampton

#5. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

Srinivas Shenoy

#6. I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary.

Loretta Chase

#7. The niche markets that catered to Western men were not about establishing relations of trust among men that would lead to business deals.

Kimberly Kay Hoang

#8. Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Karl Marx

#9. A book in hand is worth ten on the shelf

Anonymous

#10. I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

Carl Hiaasen

#11. You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. I ever retire, I'm going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about.

Jodi Taylor

#13. He offers a subtle wag and paws at my leg. I reach down and pull him up to my lap and scratch his tummy. "How about you, buddy? You ready to get out of this dump?" Bernie Kosar thumps his tail against the bed.

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