"First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381."

-- William Langland

#Holiday Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Reality Quotes

“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.”
“I'm an actress, not a celebrity.”
“We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.”
“Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.”
“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”
“It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.”
“Photographing a cake can be art.”

Source : "Photographer Irving Penn dies, aged 92" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2009.
“I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.”

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