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“The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters”
Source : William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage
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“Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.”
Source : Joumana Haddad (2011). “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”, p.62, Chicago Review Press
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“Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.”
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“I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all”
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“A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.”
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“Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.”
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“Gratitude is like love or fresh air - you can't get too much of it.”