". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Long Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Dull Quotes

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
“[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.”

Source : "Speech delivered at Barisal on 14th October 1917",
“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”
“If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.”
“Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.”
“Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.”
“I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”

Source : "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.

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