"To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!"

-- Oscar Wilde

#People Quotes #Shock Quotes

“About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.”
“I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.”
“And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.”
“I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.”
“Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.”

Source : Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”
“I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.”
“Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in.”
“Only the great can afford to have great defects.”

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