"I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods."

-- Jeremy Paxman

#America Quotes #World Quotes #Reputation Quotes

“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”
“Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.”
“I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?”
“Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.”
“The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.”

Source : Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media
“I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlettâ€”I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!”

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