quotes about Last Year

“Oprah played a big role in my understanding of what it meant to be female and to really step into your own power. I wouldn't even call her a role model; she was literally a reference point. You have the dictionary, you have the Bible, you have Oprah.”

“Even if you lie to me...that's okay. I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can give me.”

“Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.”

“It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics.”

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.”

Source : Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Family Matters”, p.157, Faber & Faber

“In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.”

“It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.”

“When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt”

“An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.”