#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Light Quotes
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.”
“Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”
Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.”
“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”
“Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.”
“Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.”
“I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.”
“It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon Poet
Daniel J. Boorstin Historian
Dorothy Bryant Novelist
Edgar Guest Poet
Edward Fitzgerald Poet
Florence Earle Coates Poet
Frank Lebby Stanton Poet
Peter Bichsel Writer
Robin Sharma Lawyer
