friendship

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."

"You just remember, mijito, whenever your wife comes screaming at you that she’s going to kill you because you forgot her birthday, that what she’s really saying is ‘I love you, I depend on you for my …"

"We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europ…"

"Between a brother and a friend, the choice is clear."

"Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard"

"No one, I think, can deny that the depression of the agricultural interest is excessive. Though I can recall periods of suffering, none of them have ever equalled the present in its instances. ... or …"

"I tell ya, man, your cat is officially out of control. He really gives new meaning to the term tempest in a teapot."

"To Toto fell the task of exposing the humbuggery that manipulated both the institutional machinery and followers. Because he did not share his companions’ trembling reverence for established wizardry,…"

"As far as women are concerned, they seem always to have been more clean than the men, except when men painted them in colors which men liked best. Perhaps society was actually cleaner in the thirteent…"

"My Zen master, because I’ve studied Zen for a long time, told me that every one of the Mary Poppins stories is in essence a Zen story. And someone else, who is a bit of a Don Juan, told me that every …"

"It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media."

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

"A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person."

"Help me find some shoes I really like. Help me also to find a nymphomaniac coke connection who owns a Ferrari dealership."

"Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that."

"If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off …"

"For when do friends not delight in the sorrow of the prosperous?"

"Did the Doctor really imagine that everbody went around believing different things? One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or …"

"Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city, you get strawberries."

"DJ AM remembered: a touching story of friendship and inspiration"