"One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it."

-- Sarah Caudwell

#Nice Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Inquisitive Quotes

“Standing, I turned to face my father. â€œItâ€™s the same as the scent on Moore. Itâ€™s definitely a foreign cat, but itâ€™s...more, somehow.â€ Ethan snickered at my unintentional pun, but I ignored him.”
“An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.”

Source : "Monsieur". Book by Lawrence Durrell, 1974.
“Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.”
“When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.”
“I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.”
“If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.”

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