Corner Of Berkshire Quotes & Sayings

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself. — K'naan

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political. — Tamara Hill

Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.' — Mike Birbiglia

A thousand moments lost because you took them for granted, just because you expected a thousand more. — Saleem Sharma

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea] — Alexander Pushkin

My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet. — Margaret Stohl

When I write I face my demons, and defeat them. — Jackie G. Mills

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. — J.K. Rowling

Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our life force, and then we go on carrying that other person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, "Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place." This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on. — Natalie Goldberg

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando