"It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity."

-- Donald Pleasence

#Character Quotes #Hands Quotes #Years Quotes

“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!”
“Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.”
“Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.”
“When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.”
“There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
“There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.”

Source : Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.164, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.”
“Iâ€™m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. Iâ€™m not a girl anymore and Iâ€™m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say â€˜Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?â€™ You think Iâ€™ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? Iâ€™ll swallow you whole.”

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