Robin Williams Sociologist Quotes & Sayings

We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths. — Adam Levin

On short stories:
something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing. — V.S. Pritchett

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself. — Linda Evans

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. 'A nice bright girl with no men friends.' You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true - when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintances. There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me - the truth. — Agatha Christie

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. — Maxwell Maltz

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always a sucker for a love story. — Sofia Coppola

we are always the slaves to whomever or whatever we look to for peace. — Andy Wood