"If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it."

“I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.”

“I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.”

Source : "Alexandra Daddario talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D' twist and scaring herself". Interview with Kevin P. Sullivan, www.mtv.com. May 15, 2013.

“As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

“I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.”

“Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be positive. I'm a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize.”

“Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, What is that?”

“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin

“Love and a cough cannot be hid.”