quotes about Highlander

“My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world.”

Source : "A Life Well Lived: A Tribute to Abdul Sattar Edhi". Waqar Haider Hashmi, Pakistaniaat (A Journal of Pakistan Studies), Volume 3, No. 2, 2011.

“Home is a complex and resonant idea.”

Source : "A Book is a Machine for Stories". Interview with Martin Riker, logger.believermag.com. April 22, 2015.

“If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.”

“So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria.”

“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”

“There was always something that meant more to you than me.”

Source : Song: There's More To Me Than You, Album: Now, 2003

“To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.”

“Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.”

“Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.”

Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications

“When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.”