"He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory."

--

Michael Ondaatje

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe”
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”

Source : Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.189, Macmillan
“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”
“For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.”
“You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.”
“On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.”
“I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.”
“I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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