"First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so."

-- Stephen Greenblatt

#Firsts Quotes #Moments Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”
“Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.”
“I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.”

Source : "David Fincher: All the best connections" by Tim Walker, www.independent.co.uk. October 8, 2010.
“When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.”
“People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.”
“All I want to know is where Iâ€™m going to die, so Iâ€™ll never go there”
“The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.”
“We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.”

Source : Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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