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“I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.”
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“As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.”
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“Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.”
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“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”
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“Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."”
Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”
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“You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders or the people running it going to have every bit of skill - and I think they looked at me and realized, OK, this is a guy who's got a lot - I'm much older than the usual run of people they fund.”
Source : "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.
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“In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.”
Source : "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.
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“Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.”