"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams."

“The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.”

“She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover.”

“MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.”

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

Source : Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

“The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.”

Source : "Full text: statement by Iain Duncan Smith", www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2001.

“AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.”

“We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.”

“I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.”

Source : "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.