"In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography."

“music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.”

“If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.”

Source : Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

“The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.”

“Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.”

Source : Charles Robert Maturin (1819). “Fredolfo: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.39

“You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.”

“Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“I've always said this: I've never seen a Michelin three-starred restaurant that was a buffet. They usually serve à la carte. I do think the delivery of a specific service, a specific advice for a specific reason, is the way you get the equivalent of a Michelin three-starred relationship.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

“We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.”