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Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play

“Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.”

Form Order Bounds Various Department Subversion

Author:Bob Woodward

“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”

People Humor Funny Power Comedy Twenties Stores Yesterday Department Trapped Selflessness Department Stores Escalators

Author:Steven Wright

“Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.”

Doe Asks Individual Pay Company Technology Car Projects Resources Police Phones Cells Department Devices Location Cell Phone Tracking Police Department

Author:Ron Wyden

“The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.”

“When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.”

People World May States Helping Running Democracy Tools Direct Department Promoting Dissidents

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.”

People Opportunity Communicate Defense Officials Department Online

Author:Howard Rheingold

“For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.”

Home Okay Police Defense Shooting Range Department Target Gun Control License Pro Gun Police Department Pro Gun Control Target Shooting Shooting Range

Author:James Brady

“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”

Thinking Feels Culture Christ Deals Personality Development Elements Catholic South Novelists Prophet Department Sociology Embarrassment Shouting Kinship Backwoods

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.”

People Reality Film Form Rooms Views Impossible Worst Models Illusion Point Of View Department Bullying Worst Things Furniture Cripples

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.”

Needs Should Government Lost Levels Ought Program Spending Budgets Agency Department

Book:Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.”

People Littles Made Heaven Mines Sells Department Pet Rubber Pork Hong Kong Pork Chops Kmart

Book:Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

People Kids Hate Parent Beats Stores Ridiculous Department Charlie Havoc Department Stores

Author:Christopher Moore

“Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.”

“Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.”

People Knows University Department American Universities

Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”

Bigs Novel Marketing Idiot Phrases Expensive Department Graphic Pompous Graphic Novels

Author:Alan Moore

“It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.”

People Feelings Police Department Frustrated Graffiti Police Department Street Art Wall And Piece Graffiti Art Graffiti Artist Good Photo

Author:Banksy

“As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.”

Art I Can Art Is Department Museums

Author:Banksy

“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”

Men Life Inspirational Whole Character Spiritual Life Is Department One Man Indivisible

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.”

Given Known Careers Computer Seven Department Academic Speakers Computer Science Dwarfs

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.”

People Want School Levels Psychology Lows Medical Department Grades Embarrassed Charismatic Medical School Good Grades

Author:Ram Dass

“California, the department store state.”

States Dignity Stores California Department Department Stores

Author:Raymond Chandler

“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.”

People Way Trying Humans Done Enough Hands Life Is Lying Dies Realizing Forget Records Worst Lifetime Defeat Witty Graves Department Toes Pits One Word Curls

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.”

Knows Different Humor Funny Brother Christmas My Brother Department Holiday Print Wraps Funny Christmas Christmas Gift Believing In Christmas

Author:Steven Wright

“Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.”

Inspirational Motivational Entrepreneur Department Shock Businessman Bananas Breakfast At Tiffanys

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.”

Brain Members Presses Studios Restaurants Department Wiser Soup Motion Pictures

Book:A Wodehouse Bestiary

Source: A Wodehouse Bestiary

“As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!”

Way Said Three Fire Four Heard Blood Fashion Cry Wind Office Department Seconds Extensions Rapids Emily Hallways Miranda

Book:The Devil Wears Prada

Source: The Devil Wears Prada

“If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.”

Ifs Want Looks Ideas Department Assassins Funny Work

Author:Scott Adams

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”

Way Wells Might Happens Moving Accepting Clean Mess Department Unfair Complaints

Author:Jeff Lindsay

“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

People Want Kind Values Accepting Opposites Sick Absolutes Theatre Quitting Department Ashamed Scare Not Afraid Applause I Quit Rave

Author:J. D. Salinger

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