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“I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways”
Source : Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.
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“The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,”
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“In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly I'm convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's simply less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally selfish, any more than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have anything to do with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question of the path your life takes.”
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“For guys who are into fitness, I think its important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.”
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“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”
Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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“All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.”
Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.194, Routledge
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“My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company
