"Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldnâ€™t, because there arenâ€™t enough skulls!"

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Play Quotes #Skulls Quotes #People Quotes

“I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...”
“In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.”
“Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality canâ€™t be copyrighted.”
“Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.”

Source : "'What is an icon?'". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2005.
“Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
“There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.”
“Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.”

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