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“Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.”
Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press
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“My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me -- ten times. Not double, but ten times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles, and there's just not for women.”
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“I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.”
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“The world is always ending for someone”
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“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.”
Source : "Keeping the Dream Alive" by Jon Meacham, content.time.com. June 21, 2012. 
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“Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.”
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“I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I'm not very good at it. The best I can usually pull off is 'professional if somewhat chilly.' It's not ideal no. But it beats 'awkward and bitchy.”
Source : Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.11, Spectra
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“It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.”
Source : 1981 A Start in Life.
