"I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again."

-- Hugh Masekela

#Home Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Laundry Quotes

“If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.”
“People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.”

Source : "John Hughes: In Memory" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. August 6, 2009.
“Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.”
“Weâ€™ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We arenâ€™t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but theyâ€™re really protecting themselves. Besides, you canâ€™t protect children. They know everything.”
“Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.”
“I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of”
“I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.”
“On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.”

Source : Sarah Fielding (1986). “The cry (1754)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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