"What's it all about Alfie, is it just the moment we live?"

-- Dionne Warwick

#Moments Quotes #Alfie Quotes

“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
“When you are through learning you are through.”
“I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.”
“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”
“O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that you call so loudly and yet nobody hears you, that you are so near and yet nobody feels you, that you give yourself to everybody and yet nobody knows your name? Men flee from you and say they cannot find you; they turn their backs and say they cannot see you; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear you.”
“The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.”
“I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.”
“the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.”

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