"I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment."

“In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.”

Source : 'The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bó' (1871)

“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”

“We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.”

“There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.”

“Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.”

Source : "Q&A: 'Lockout' first daughter Maggie Grace on being an unlikely action star" by Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2012.

“To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'”

“[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”