"No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become."

-- Daniel H. Wilson

#Letting Go Quotes #Dream Quotes #Kids Quotes

“If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.2, Macmillan
“I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.”
“Life's a pitch, and then you buy”

Source : "Sales tips from the new Billy Mays" by Thom Patterson, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2010.
“The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.”
“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.”
“A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.”

Source : "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.
“To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.”
“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”

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