"A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me."

-- Jerry Lewis

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Years Quotes

“The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.302, Harvard University Press
“I'm not really a femme fatale.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.
“It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.”
“A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully, ceaselessly, will be in a position to give needy mankind the benefit it lacks most and is in greatest need of.”
“Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.”
“The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.”

Source : "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.
“In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly."”

Source : Nicholas von Hoffman (2010). “Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky”, p.109, Hachette UK

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