"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

-- Dennis Potter

#Personality Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Fatherhood Quotes

“By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.”
“So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway.”
“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”
“It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.”
“After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.”
“It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.”
“A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.”
“I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.”

You may also like:

Alan Bleasdale
Writer
Albert Finney
Actor
Bernadette Peters
Actress
Bob Hoskins
Actor
Gina Bellman
Actress
Martin Cruz Smith
Novelist
Melvyn Bragg
Broadcaster
Michael Gambon
Actor
Saffron Burrows
Actress