"To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up."

-- Meryl Streep

#People Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Way Quotes

“My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.”

Source : "Okay, So He's Not Johnny Carson—but Cavett's on Broadway and Back for More Talk on TV". Interview with Dick Cavett, people.com. October 17, 1977.
“The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.”
“You can search the world over, but you wonâ€™t find happiness until you realize that happiness isnâ€™t getting what you want. Itâ€™s being content with what you already have.”
“As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.”
“Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before”
“Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.”
“One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.”

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