"At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Gay Quotes #Taste Quotes #Kind Quotes

“For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.”
“Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.”
“And all I do is look into your eyes For that special touch of paradise”

Source : Song: A Touch Of Paradise
“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.”
“If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are”
“I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...”

Source : Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.71, Counterpoint Press
“You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.”

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