Vance Packard The Hidden Persuaders Quotes

#1. Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

#2. If you believe, don't worry. If you don't believe you will get all dressed up with nowhere to go.

Lyn Johnson

#3. When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

Eric Hoffer

#4. Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

E.L. Doctorow

#5. He tiger is the very soul of India,&when the last tiger has gone,so will the soul of the country.

Ruskin Bond

#6. It's not broken
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"It is now." What? Had it not been gentlemanly to tear up her motor?

Cynthia Eden

#7. She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

August Wilson

#9. I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.

Tim Vine

#10. The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.

Timothy W. Tron

#11. Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

John Fahey

#12. Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

#13. In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Alan Perlis

#14. And honestly, given the choice of facing my mother or a vampire, I think I'd always choose the latter.

Krystle Jones

#15. I'm a live wire in a dead world,

Eyedea