"He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch."

-- Graham Greene

#Memories Quotes #Flower Quotes #Men Quotes

“To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity.”
“For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.”
“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.”
“You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.”
“As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 4, 2011.
“It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.”

Source : "Blowback Strikes US" by Larry Mosqueda, www.counterpunch.org. September 18, 2001.
“I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.”
“I don't mind being recognized, it's just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The idea of having to be 'on' and social at random times can be difficult. I'll be out in the morning, someone comes and takes a picture, and then I discover I have toothpaste on my face.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

You may also like:

E. M. Forster
Novelist
Elizabeth Bowen
Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Writer
Henry James
Writer
John le Carre
Author
Joseph Conrad
Author
Vivien Greene
Novelist
William Golding
Novelist