"It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart."

-- Jonathan Carroll

#Regret Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”
“The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, itâ€™s quality.”

Source : "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.
“Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.”
“People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.116, Soho Press
“Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.”
“I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it's not TwitterVision per se that excited me, but Twitter itself and its implications.”

Source : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com
“Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.”

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