A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
R. L. Stine
Recitation: by Male by Female
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
Jimmy Carter
CaliforniaWhateverSpreadStarts
We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.
John Lanchester
FamilyStoryFindNobodyKnowMore
The first step to take to wake up earlier is to have a nighttime routine that not only encourages you to fall asleep but also guarantees you'll sleep soundly each and every night.
John Rampton
SleepStepNightWake UpFirst Step
Travelling fills me with dread.
Tom Hodgkinson
MeDreadTravellingFills
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker
AlwaysWebPrintElseFails
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
Martin O'Malley
PeopleViolencePovertyEconomyLeft
My mom doesn't fit into my shoes, so sucks for her!
Lourdes Leon
ShoesMomHerFitSucks
Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
Brad Holland
ArtBagOutsideClientCommercial
How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Black And WhitePeopleBlackLanguage
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
FamilyPatriotismMeRootsWorld
Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.
William T. Vollmann
OpportunityDifferencesHumanEngage
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
Pico Iyer
WisdomChallengesQuestionsDarkWay
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