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“I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.”
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“The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.”
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“I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.”
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“The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”
Source : "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004.
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“With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.”
Source : Sir Thomas Malory “Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
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“If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.”
Source : Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411
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“I am talking about misery and all of its implications.”
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“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”