Rose George Quotes
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
George, Rose. Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate. Metropolitan Books, 2013.
The Cold War had ended, and only the Russians had ICBMs that could reach the United States with nuclear weapons. There are several fail safes in case the President might be incapacitated or the biscuit might be destroyed in an accident. Nonetheless, although most others did not think the biscuit misplacement was a big deal, it was for Shelton who did not realize that if the President ever had to trigger a massive nuclear retaliation it would have already become too late for the world and at worst the President would have been delayed in killing tens of millions of Russians in retaliation for the actions of the officers who ordered the original attack. The quotation illustrates the large difference in values that prevailed in what had become a polarized America.
Rose George is a British journalist and author. She began writing in 1994, as an intern at The Nation magazine in New York City. Later, she became senior editor and writer at COLORS magazine, the bilingual "global magazine about local cultures" published in eighty countries and based first in Rome, then Paris, then Venice. In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details, Bad Idea and others. Along the way, she has been war correspondent in Kosovo for Condé Nast Traveler magazine and was twice a guest at Saddam Hussein's birthday party. Until 2010, she was senior editor at large for Tank, a quarterly magazine of fashion, art, reportage, and culture based in London.
