"If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes."

-- Maria Sharapova

#Smile Quotes #Life Is Good Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.”
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartâ€”the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.”
“Itâ€™s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your readerâ€™s imagination when youâ€™re telegraphing your punches.”
“When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.”
“What is death all about? What is life all about?”

Source : Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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