"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."

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Source : Tom Wilson (1997). “Ziggyisms: Notable Quotes of Wisdom for Everyday Living”, p.86, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Tom Wilson

#Country Quotes #Funny Things Quotes #Experience Quotes

“Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.”
“Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?”

Source : "Film-makers fight to preserve films" by Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. October 3, 1995.
“You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.”
“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
“Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.”
“I don't like ordinary girls. But a girl who would kill a guy to make him hers and then kiss his still-warm lips... a girl like Oscar Wilde's Salome They drive me crazy. Like Kiyohime turning into a snake to chase her man or the grocery girl Oshichi who set fire to a building just to see hers one more time. I want to be loved like that be obsessed over be hated.”
“So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.11
“You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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