"Thatâ€™s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a childâ€™s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didnâ€™t matter. Death didnâ€™t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it."

-- Lev Grossman

#Children Quotes #Games Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.”

Source : "Dick Van Patten - Finding A “Natural Balance” Between Acting, Animals and Family Fun" by Lori Golden, www.thepetpress-la.com. September, 2004.
“That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.”

Source : Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.96, Penguin
“One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.”
“You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.”
“Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that white people used.”
“Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.”
“Life is too short not to experiment.”
“It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)”

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