"It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price."

-- Samuel Richardson

#Taste Quotes #Bribe Quotes #Avarice Quotes

“As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.”
“Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.”
“I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.”

Source : F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing
“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.”

Source : Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House
“I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.”
“economy spoils pleasure”
“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”

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