"I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite."

-- Lynn Kurland

#Wine Quotes #Irony Quotes #Fine Quotes

“I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for everything. I'm just taking it step by step.”
“Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.”

Source : "An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994".
“There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.”
“Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.”
“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”
“The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.”
“You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure.”
“The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.”

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