"At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that."

-- Jon Ronson

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Eccentric Quotes

“There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever”

Source : "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.
“Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.”
“I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.”
“Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.”
“Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
“Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.”

Source : "Pacquiao-Hatton Worthy of Grand Setting". Yahoo! Sports, March 31, 2009.
“Nothing so perilous as procrastination”

Source : John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.58, Manchester University Press
“Never think you've seen the last of anything.”

Source : The Optimist's Daughter ch. 1 (1969)

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