“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government,… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
There shouldn't be two Indias; we need affordable housing. There are projections that by 2017, 18.78 million will be the number of… — Girija Vyas Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in… — Katherine Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image