"We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood."

-- U.G. Krishnamurti

#Blood Quotes #Hovering Quotes #Ants Quotes

“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didnâ€™t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”
“When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.”
“For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.”
“Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.”
“I used to worry about losing my husband to another woman. Now, I'm more afraid of losing my nanny to another woman.”
“The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.”
“You can make a beautiful, airtight world that's fascinating to look at, but it's not interesting unless you have a character that's trying to achieve something under the circumstances of that world. It's harder to play a wacky girlfriend whose journey you just don't understand.”
“So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.”

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