#col

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#college #companies #could #educated #enough

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. ↗

— Black Elk

#flames #i #leap #looked #many

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now. ↗

— David Elliott

#collecting #doing #gets #ideas #more

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#college #college level #congress #end #english

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#copies #deluxe #did #edition #expensive

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#malcolm #malcolm x #mandela #nelson #nelson mandela

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti

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

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#afraid #am #any #been #college