"It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love."

“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.

“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”

“Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow”

“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”

“Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.”

“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.”

“When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

“At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having fun hosting '106 Park.' I'm not really eager to get back into music just yet; I'm really eager to get into another movie before I put out an album.”