quotes about Last Five Years

“The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.”

Source : David Swing (1893). “Brilliants”

“There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.”

“It feels so good to be happy.”

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!”

“Luck ran out, but smart was for life.”

Source : John Connolly (2012). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

“I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.”

“the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."”

“I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

“I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.”

“We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.”