Newfest 30th Quotes

#1. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

Hillary Clinton

#3. You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

Will Rogers

#4. This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

Anais Nin

#5. Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

Rob Schwimmer

#6. And I thought that even before I had sex with him.

Jojo Moyes

#7. Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. It's always best to fight just one battle at a time. You win more that way.

Michael Scott

#9. You have to know that there actually is a transcendental something, if you are going to free anybody from anything - if there is no beyond-the-given, there is no freedom from the given, and liberation is futile.

Ken Wilber

#10. At those times I got into ... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Val Guest

#11. There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

Anatole France

#12. I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin