"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."

“I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.”

Source : "A Lesson in the Art of Storytelling: An Interview with Alistair MacLeod". Interview with William Baer, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2005.

“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.”

Source : "Cosmos". Book by H.G. Bohn, v2, p. 589,595, 1860.

“Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.”

“I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.”

“It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.”

Source : Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

“The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.”

“When I get nervous, I get word vomit.”

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

“Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.”