Krista

“And then they were silent once again, drifting back to the painful place they both shared but could only occupy separately.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“A cat had to balance his willingness to help humankind with the knowledge that people must learn to do things for themselves.”
― Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Cat to the Dogs

“Fischer also believes that Cyclone suited the image U.S. intelligence leaders liked to project of the CIA, of an organization packed with spooks and paramilitaries who fought in war zones, in sharp contrast to the more intellectual pursuit of sponsoring books and publishing. “The bottom line was that it didn’t fit their image of themselves as CIA operators who went around recruiting spies,” he said. “The operators, the spy guys, think covert action is a waste of time, waste of money,” he said. The result was that some of the people who worked on Polish operations were not properly recognized for their work, despite being “heroes of the story,” as Fischer puts it. Richard Malzahn, who ran QRHELPFUL from Langley, was one of those who suffered. Far from being promoted, he was packed off to be a lowly analyst.”
― Charlie English, The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

“According to his former sound engineer David Z, Prince once played ping-pong with Michael Jackson in a recording studio and trash-talked the music legend for playing the game “like Helen Keller.” “You want me to slam it?” Prince taunted Jacko, according to Z. “Michael dropped his paddle and held his hands up in front of his face so the ball wouldn’t hit him,” Z recalled. “Michael walked out . . . and Prince started strutting and said, ‘Did you see that? He played like Helen Keller.’” It was no secret, Prince was extremely competitive.4”
― Kevin Nealon, I Exaggerate: My Brushes with Fame