The Noticer Returns Quotes

#1. Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Harvey Fierstein

#2. The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.

Graham Hancock

#3. Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens>

Andy Andrews

#4. A soldier fought better when he knew that he was not only needed, but appreciated back home. There were few things as degrading to man than to come home to the people you served, only to be shunned and reviled by them.

Evan Currie

#5. I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker

#6. I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Eva Longoria

#7. Tea to the English is really picnic indoors. Plenty of sandwiches and cookies and of course hot tea. We all used the same cups and plates. (Walker 2000: 116)

Alice Walker

#8. I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Leon Krier

#9. I'm not sure I understand you," she said. "Are you telling me you saved my life because you were angry with me?" The idea struck me funny. "Yes," I said, trying not to smile. "Furious." "Furious?" "Enraged," I said. "Oh dear." And then she smiled.

Catherine M. Wilson

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Geoffrey Chaucer

#11. I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

Rajneesh

#12. When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.

Harold Pinter

#13. Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

Kevin Kline

#14. My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world,

Margaret Drabble