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“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin
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“The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.”
Source : London Punch Letters, No. 5, 1866.
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“There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.”
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“I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!”
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“The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.”
Source : "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.
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“When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.”
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“There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.”
Source : Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
