"She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing."

-- Marcel Proust

#Clouds Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Tea Quotes

“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”
“Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.”
“After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.”

Source : "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.
“I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.”
“A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.”
“Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.”
“Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.39
“I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.”

Source : Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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