"Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Abuse Quotes #Quotations Quotes

“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.”
“Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.”

Source : "Michael Sheen: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.
“Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.277, Simon and Schuster
“Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.”

Source : "Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates". abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2006.
“We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.”

Source : "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2013.
“Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Pre-mature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before.”
“Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.”
“The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.”

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