"Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea."

-- Germaine Greer

#Ideas Quotes #Monogamy Quotes #Lifelong Quotes

“I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.”
“Your very silence shows you agree.”
“I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.”
“Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
“Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.”
“I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.”
“Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.”

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