"Success is always less funny than failure."

--

Source : "In praise of the north" by Andrew Martin, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2008.

Jon Ronson

“On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.”
“Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.”
“Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.”
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
“I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.”
“Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.”

Source : Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.120, Cambridge University Press
“I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.”

You may also like:

Albert J. Dunlap
Executive
Alex Jones
Radio host
Domhnall Gleeson
Actor
Grant Heslov
Actor
Jonah Lehrer
Author
Peter Straughan
Playwright
Peter V. Brett
Novelist
Robert D. Hare
University Professor
Lenny Abrahamson
Film director