"I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way."

-- John Oliver

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes

“You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.”

Source : "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.
“Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.”
“There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.”
“This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.”
“Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?”
“Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. Iâ€™ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?”
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

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