#po

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#hated #i #into #juries #political

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#having #his #hitchcock #i #just

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#apartment #bad #behind #book #earn

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#being #compounds #dead-end #dead-end street #futility

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#between #deposit #difference #farmer #john

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#corporations #government #lobby

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#battling #code #countryside #down #economic

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#going #populist #washington #you

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#created #damage #day #declares #demanded

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#arena #been #candidate #elected #enough