"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."

-- Norman Spinrad

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Ordinary People Quotes

“I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”
“If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.”
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.”
“I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.”
“They try to get me to watch The Condemned and I said NO,NO, NO. It's a sad fact Stone Colduh can't act he should GO, GO, GO. He likes to hang out in baaaaaars, I gave his movie zero staaaaaars. They try to make me watch The Condemned and I said uh NO,NO,NO.”
“I will love you truly forever and a day!”

Source : William Rose Benét (1947). “The Stairway of Surprise: Poems”, New York : Alfred A. Knopf
“Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.”

Source : Tom Holt (2012). “Djinn Rummy”, p.79, Hachette UK
“In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.”

Source : Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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