#ink

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#conversation #ever #having #i #like

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#i #i think #love #think #thirties

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #constantly #heard #i #i think

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#case #developing #direction #few #going

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of. ↗

— Ivan Allen

#atlanta #city #greatest #greatest city #i

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#often #opportunity #our #stop #think

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. ↗

— Ice T

#also #deadly #happen #kind #scary

Even the worst book can give us something to think about. ↗