"Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission."

-- Ben Marcus

#Book Quotes #Wind Quotes #Weather Quotes

“[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.”
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
“Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.”
“You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.”

Source : "Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan". Interview with Joe Conason, www.aarp.org. September 2013.
“I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.”
“Because youve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.”
“Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.”

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