"People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up."

-- Felix Dennis

#People Quotes #Use Quotes #World Quotes

“I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?”
“I feel like each time I do something I want it to be more and more recognizable that it's me so, by the time I do a film, my films will be as recognizable as someone like David Lynch or someone who's got their own thing going on.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2005.
“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“Getting old is not for sissies.”
“I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.”

Source : Source: www.lasplash.com
“You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.
“Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.”

Source : Sheng-yen, Shengyan (1996). “Dharma drum: the life and heart of Chʻan practice”, Dharma Drum Pubns

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