"The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names."

-- Charles C. Mann

#Names Quotes #Sides Quotes #Streets Quotes

“My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.”
“When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy.”
“Some tell me Preach the pure gospel! This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called a pure gospel are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police?”

Source : Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, David C Cook
“I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.”

Source : Rebecca Goldstein (2000). “Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.”

Source : "Spearhead" live at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, www.youtube.com. April 19, 2007.
“I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.”
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
“Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.â€ He glanced in the direction sheâ€™d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. â€œFourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.”

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