"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."

“I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.”

“While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2008). “Daemons Are Forever”, p.83, Penguin

“Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.”

“We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.”

“Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.”

“the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.”

“If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.”

“Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.”

Source : Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1985). “The dance of anger: a woman's guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships”, Harpercollins