"If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement."

“The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.”

Source : "X Factor finals 2011: Simon Cowell warns judges they face axe over plummeting viewing figures". www.mirror.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”

Source : Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

“Things that are real are given and received in silence.”

Source : Eruch Jessawala, Meher Baba (1995). “That's how it was: stories of life with Meher Baba”

“I've never met a successful pessimist.”

“I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.”

“I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.”

“When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.”

Source : Sir Stanley Spencer, Fiona MacCarthy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City) (1997). “Stanley Spencer: An English Vision”, Yale University Press

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.”