"What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?"

-- Jerry Seinfeld

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.”
“The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.”
“Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.”

Source : Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers
“One, as an employer you already have a management problem when your employee has a new child or needs to care for their ailing family member. You've got to replace the person, at least temporarily; it's a tremendous pain to hire somebody new.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
“I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.”
“Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.”

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