"Nostalgia is heroin for old people."

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Source : Interview with Malcolm Hay, www.timeout.com. April 24, 2006.

Dara O Briain

#Funny Quotes #People Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.”
“When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace”
“When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.”
“I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.”
“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
“I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.”
“The best way to judge the worth of a personâ€™s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.”
“It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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