"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."

-- Clive James

#Good Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.”
“Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.”
“I was always the smallest guy on the field.”
“Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.”
“The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.”
“If you donâ€™t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.”
“If you have appreciation for life, whether it is a planet or any wild species, if it's a human or an elephant, death is really bad for all of us to adjust to. We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level.”
“I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.”

Source : "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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