#loc

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#been #chicago #come #completely #country

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#clock #i #like #simple #such

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#departments #ensuring #homeland #keep #local

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#besides #key #many #treasure #unlocked

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #blocked #freedom #i #information

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bring #competing #disasters #emergencies #full

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#flock #immaculate #member #must #oneself

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate? Misfortune? Is that what glued them down like that? Of course not. Let's not be stupid. It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death