"Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Self Quotes #Frustrated Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.”
“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”
“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”
“Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.”

Source : "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.
“I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.”

Source : "Geoffrey Beene" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2004.
“The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness.Â They show you to its door.”
“Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.”

Source : Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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