"We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really an odd bunch. They put a barrier around themselves, and not many people got through it. This was the spark that I really latched onto - someone who could break through the barrier. Of course [FINDING FORRESTER] really began to take shape when I began to wonder, what if it was a young person?"

-- Mike Rich

#People Quotes #What If Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.”
“I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.”
“I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.”
“Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.”
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
“This life is but the childhood of our immortality.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan
“Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“The guilty think all talk is of themselves.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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