"British people are surprised that I'm British!"

-- David Harewood

#People Quotes #British Quotes

“I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.”
“Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.”
“The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.”
“Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.”
“I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.”
“Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.”
“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.32, SUNY Press
“We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

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