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“Revolutions are not made with rosewater.”
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“I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.”
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“Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.”
Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.115, Penguin
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“Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.”
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“Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like that, you have to have some secret, magical unicorn blood that makes carbs disappear as they go into your body. I prefer the truth.”
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“An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.”
Source : "Winner shuns 'toilet-cleaner OBE'", news.bbc.co.uk. May 28, 2006.
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“It was a sh*t sandwich.”