"If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!"

-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Helping Others Quotes #People Quotes #Position Quotes

“In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.”

Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
“I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.”
“Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.”
“Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.”
“Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin
“Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.”
“Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.”

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