"Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards."

“The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.”

“Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.”

“In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

“As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.”

“I have to see myself naked! That’s all that counts. If I’m not happy with my naked body, who will be?”

“I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.”

“Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.”

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.111, Crown Business