Alouettes Dance Quotes & Sayings

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing — Kwame Anthony Appiah

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor ... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him. — John Ritter

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. — Simonides Of Ceos

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got. — Michael Caine

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances. — Don Rickles

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. — Pope Paul VI

Marxism in this country had even been an eccentric and quixotic passion. One oppressed class after another had seemed finally to miss the point. The have-nots, it turned out, aspired mainly to having. The minorities seemed to promise more, but finally disappointed: it developed that they actually cared about the issues, that they tended to see the integration of the luncheonette and the seat in the front of the bus as real goals, and only rarely as ploys, counters in a larger game. They resisted that essential inductive leap from the immediate reform to the social ideal, and, just as disappointingly, they failed to perceive their common cause with other minorities, continued to exhibit a self-interest disconcerting in the extreme to organizers steeped in the rhetoric of "brotherhood."
And then, at that exact dispirited moment when there seemed no one at all willing to play the proletariat, along came the women's movement. — Joan Didion

I am the same as I was, and do not alter; it is you who have changed. What has happened is this: you took my advice when you were still untouched by misfortune, and repented of your action when things went badly with you; it is because your own resolution is weak that my policy appears to you to be mistaken. — Thucydides