Quotes
Prettiness, with its mid-Victorian languish of the neck... despite the Post-What-Not fashionableness of its draperies.
Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
You make Gandhi look like a used car salesman!
People who love ideas must have a love of words, and that means, given a chance; they take a vivid interest in the clothes which words wear.
Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
I figure we have sufficient evidence to convict him . . . there's no one else but him.
All I remember - I don't actually remember or know what night it was I talked to him but I assume it was that night because he did mention that the rumor was out that we were getting ready to file a charge of Oswald being part of an international conspiracy, and I told him that that was not going to be done.
Harry V. Wade
The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife.
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.