"Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them."

-- Idries Shah

#People Quotes #Secret Quotes

“It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.”
“That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.”
“Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.”
“Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.”

Source : "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“I myself am hell; nobody's here”

Source : 'Skunk Hour' (1959) st. 5
“Our players are mad, but it's good mad.”
“If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.”
“When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner." And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically." And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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