"Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself."

“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.”

Source : "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

“We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort”

“In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.”

“It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.”

“I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.”

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

“I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.”

Source : Song: Best Imitation of Myself, Album: Ben Folds Five

“Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.”

“All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.”