#lis

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze. ↗

— David Miliband

#capitalism #childhood #dad #debating #football

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#bad #before #book #down #good

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#left #like #out #people #realism

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#between #differences #dishonest #hard #hard working

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice. ↗

— Carmen Miranda

#english #grape #hot #hot dog #i

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#appetite #cold #english #hollywood #mountain

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#cannot #established #lasting #order

Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#hippies #new-age #sandwiches #age