"I canâ€™t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab."

-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#Fifth Avenue Quotes #Traffic Quotes #Walks Quotes

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”
“When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.”
“It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
“To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.”
“What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth â€” or in heaven â€” do I mean by integral? The dictionary meaning is fairly simple: comprehensive, balanced, inclusive, essential for completeness. Short definition, tall order.”
“To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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