Famous quotes containing the words time, pad and/or system:
“Tony Camonte: Hey, what’s all the time bitin’ you? You afraid of me?
Poppy: Well, that outfit is enough to give anybody the yips.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)