Quotes
Authors
John Michael McDonagh
"I presume that each country will have a different response to each joke. But mostly what I've seen is that everyone has the same response. The line about: "He hasn't had this much fun since they burned all those kids at Waco..." I thought that might get a real.... it does in America, it gets a shock, as if they fall back in their seats, but then they still laugh." --
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
John Michael McDonagh
#Country Quotes
#Fun Quotes
#Real Quotes
“Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.”
“If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.”
“We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.”
Source : Alice Miller (2006). “The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company
“Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.”
“I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.”
“I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.”
“There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.”
