"It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Wine Quotes #Bird Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth,'”

Source : "The Drama Actor Roundtable" by Matthew Belloni and Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2011.
“The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.”
“The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.”
“Never believe in any faith younger than you are.”
“It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.”
“If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.”
“Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.”

Source : Jennifer James (1987). “Windows”, Newmarket Press
“For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.”

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