"So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations."

-- Thomas Lynch

#Effort Quotes #Language Quotes #Situation Quotes

“Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.”
“Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.”
“My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.”
“[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.”
“Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.”
“If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.”
“English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.”

Source : George Mikes (2016). “English Humour for Beginners”, p.7, Penguin UK
“Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.”

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