"...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone."

-- Patricia A. McKillip

#Dust Quotes #World Quotes #Gathering Quotes

“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.”

Source : "Ben Mendelsohn: from Erinsborough to Hollywood via Gotham" by Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.
“The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.”
“Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.”
“However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.”
“Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.”
“It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”
“Tall, completely jacked, steroids, like multiple growth hormones. That's, like, the type that I'm attracted to.”
“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.36, Vintage

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