"At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say..."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Laughing Quotes #Said Quotes #Duchess Quotes

“The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.”
“Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. Iâ€™m afraid. More afraid than youâ€™d ever believe.â€™ And heâ€™d take her hand and theyâ€™d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And sheâ€™d tell him everything.”
“Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.”
“Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.”
“Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.”

Source : John Osborne (2013). “John Osborne Plays 2: The Entertainer; The Hotel in Amsterdam; West of Suez; Time Present”, p.83, Faber & Faber
“Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.
“The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.”
“I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.”

Source : "March on Washington had one female speaker: Josephine Baker". Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 28, 1963.

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