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“I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.”
Source : Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan
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“Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.”
Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
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“Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.”
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“When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.”
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“Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.”
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“People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.”
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“The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.”
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“I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
