Pilleys Island Quotes & Sayings

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work. — Ricky Gervais

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn. — Michel De Montaigne

Art does what reality cannot. — Jayme K.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow. — George Mikes

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. — Eli Pariser

A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more. — Bocafloja

That's what I've always found so pathetic about fans. They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to doing anything with that inspiration, like enriching their own lives. It drove Stanny-boy crazy. He used to say to me, 'Huey' - it was his nickname for me - 'Huey, they see the films five times, write me fan letters, but the underlying meaning is lost on them. They take nothing away. Not heroism. Not courage. It's all just entertainment. — Marisha Pessl

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are. — Robin Leach