"Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone."

-- Alan Bennett

#Smell Quotes #Confusing Quotes #Library Quotes

“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.”
“When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.”
“So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.”
“How many languages do we really speak?”
“Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.125, Crown Business
“There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.”
“I've taken people and fired them over a period of a year. I've fired them over a period of a month. I've fired them over a period of a day or a week, nice and easy, slow. The one thing that a firing always has in common is the next day they wake up and they hate Donald Trump, no matter how nice you are.”
“Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?”

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