"Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond."

-- Liz Curtis Higgs

#Funny Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Together Quotes

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

Source : "Fictional character: Über-Morlock". "The Time Machine", 2002.
“A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.”
“It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?”
“I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.”

Source : Interview with Burgin Streetman, www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com. July 1, 2013.
“An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.”
“Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.”
“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.”
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?”

Source : Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia

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