quotes about My Grandfather

“If you look at the steps being taken towards Scottish independence, they're being dealt with politically in very dull and boring ways. So if you just feverishly speculate numbered but random Scotlands - because in the book, it's a random sequence of possibilities - you can imagine many ways in which different things might happen.”

“Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.415, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.”

“As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an incredible diversity of people writing comics right now. As a writer, there are a lot of parts that I was thinking about in terms of the specific experience of being a woman superhero and what that means - the kind of pressures that are on strong women, and how women are able to feel strong in a public world.”

“Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 16, 2016

“I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.”

“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

“A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.”