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“Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin to crumble, he crumbled with it and led it to death.”
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“The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.”
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“Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.”
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“God himself has no right to be a tyrant.”
Source : William Godwin (1890). “Godwin's "Political Justice.": A Reprint of the Essay on "Property," from the Original Edition”
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“I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!”
Source : John Diefenbaker's speech to PC convention (September 1967), as quoted in Margaret Wente "I Never Say Anything Provocative", 1975.
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“He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.”
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“This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.”
Source : "Former Dem Artur Davis Addresses GOP Convention: "Let's Take This Country Back", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 28, 2012.
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“Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.”