"Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.”
“Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.”

Source : Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil (2003). “The Story of English”, Penguin Group USA
“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.”
“Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.”
“Everything is a version of something else.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.63, Grove Press
“We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.”
“Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...”

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