"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

-- James Herriot

#Children Quotes #Animal Quotes #People Quotes

“The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.”
“I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.”
“And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.”
“Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could work with amazing photographers. It just gave me a different field of work.”
“[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.”
“Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.”
“there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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