My Ace Boon Coon Quotes

#1. Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Eleanor Catton

#2. I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

Gloria Steinem

#3. As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Magdi Yacoub

#4. I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Ashwin Sanghi

#5. When I see someone wearing fur, I just want to sit them down in front of one of PETA's videos and show them just how badly animals suffer for this supposed fabric that no one needs.

Tim Howard

#6. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then knowledge is a dish best left untouched.

Jill Archer

#7. Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

Harold Acton

#8. By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

Carla Korbes

#9. Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

Anthony Robbins

#12. No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton