Reflection : (507)

" Celebrity – I don’t even know what that means. Obviously it’s the same basic word as celebration, but I don’t know what’s being celebrated. " - James Woods

" My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. " - J. M. Coetzee

" Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored. " - Deborah Harkness

" He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror. " - Eric Cantona

" Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present. " - Bob Ney

" Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism. " - Michael Korda

" We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. " - Charles Horton Cooley

" An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. " - Quentin Crisp

" The month of Ramadan is the world’s most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective). " - Tariq Ramadan

" I think I’m ever so slightly behind myself and I don’t know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts. " - Liza Tarbuck