"But then I thought, â€˜I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.â€"

-- Julie Bindel

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #People Quotes

“One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.268, Walter de Gruyter
“That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.”

Source : Source: www.tvequals.com
“The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.”
“Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.”
“Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.”

Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”
“Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.”
“My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'”

Source : "Scrubs Star John C. McGinley Engaged" by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, people.com. August 19, 2006.
“I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance.”

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