"I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God."

“He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.”

Source : John Aubrey (1957). “Brief lives”

“Botvinnik was a killer in chess.”

“As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.”

“Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

“I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.”

“I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.”

Source : "When in Rome". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

“Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.”

“Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it”