"Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months."

“The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

“Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.”

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

“Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.”

Source : "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

“They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.”

“Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.”

Source : Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”

“He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.”