quotes about Funny Story

“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

“Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains?”

“Without awareness, we are not truly alive.”

“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.”

Source : Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.98, Macmillan

“All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.”

“A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.”

Source : "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.

“Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.”

“Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.”

“Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color.”

Source : Maurice Thompson (2008). “Alice of Old Vincennes (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

“When I am old, I shall wear purple”

Source : "Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.