"I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Mother Quotes #Use Quotes #Madness Quotes

“I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.”
“Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?”
“I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.”

Source : "Mélanie Laurent Exclusive Interview; The Concert Star On Inglourious Basterds' Worldwide Appeal, Experiencing Cannes With Quentin Tarantino & Becoming A Virtuoso Violinist In 3 Months". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. August 09, 2010.
“The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.”
“How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.”
“How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let's kill all the judges?”

Source : Michael Foot's speech at the Scottish Miners' Gala in Edinburgh (attacking the National Industrial Relations Court and its President, Sir John Donaldson), June 3, 1972.
“Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.”
“If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.”

Source : Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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