"I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer."

-- Cornelia Funke

“A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.”
“The best way never to fall is ever to fear.”

Source : William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.162
“To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.”

Source : "Jill Hennessy Returns to Her First Love: Music". Interview with Lesley Messer, people.com. October 24, 2008.
“The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.”
“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”
“Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.”
“I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.”
“The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.”

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