"He told me he was having the time of his life and then fell to the floor unconscious. I didnt take this too personally, although he was not the first person to collapse while talking to me; to tell the truth it has happened quite often."
Thomas Stewart Baker is an English actor and writer. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, making him the longest-serving actor in the role.
"But it was drama, high drama: fires at night, the fires that burned peoples houses away; bombs fell and left exotically shaped fragments in the form of shrapnel. And we collected it and traded it. As long as we were not hurt -- and I wasnt -- life seemed wonderful."
"Would you like to go to New Zealand to do a commercial?" Thats the sort of question an actor likes to hear from his agent in freezing mid -January."
"We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didnt like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks."
"The notion that God was everywhere put paid to any possible peace of mind by the time I was six."
"The chaos of our lives suited me; I dont think I wanted it to end."
"When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that hed had a stroke. "I cant have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "Ive got 93,000 pounds in my current account."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"
E. E. Cummings"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
Erich Fromm"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"
"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."