"It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be."

“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books

“Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.”

“I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.”

“I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.”

Source : "Penn State Knew and Looked the Other Way" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2012.

“I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.”

“Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law.”

“In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.”