#us

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#bath #between #clean #cool #could

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. ↗

— James Buchan

#business #commercial #display #government #helplessness

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#forget #god #heaven #i #just

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#change #day #diapers #each #had

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. ↗

— James Buchan

#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#after #become #books #collection #depends

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#faults #greatest #i #none #say

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. ↗

— James Buchan

#adjusted #age #average #barrel #century

I'm just someone who observes a lot. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#just #lot #observes #someone #who