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“I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.”
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“At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.”
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“Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.”
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“Everything that you want, you are already that.”
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“Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.”
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“The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?”
Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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“Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.”
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“The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?”
Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.182, Vintage