"You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable."

-- James M. Barrie

“Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time,”
“When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.”
“I canâ€™t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.”
“If only it were possible to love without injury â€“ fidelity isnâ€™t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again â€“ I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”
“The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.”
“Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business”
“Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.”
“Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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