"You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't."

“We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.”

“We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf

“Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,”

“This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.”

Source : Cecile Richards' Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

“Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.”

“The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

“Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.”

Source : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

“The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them”