"This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Family Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.”
“Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.
“And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!”
“My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.”

Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.”

Source : Cornelius Vanderbilt (1956). “Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt”
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.”
“Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?”
“There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.”

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