"The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up."

-- Adam Ulam

“For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.”
“Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.”
“I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.”

Source : "Ebola fears grow as experts say epidemic could spread to US, Europe and Asia remain on alert". www.news.com.au. July 31, 2014.
“People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.”
“You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.”
“We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.”

Source : John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.193, Univ of California Press
“At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.”
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”

Source : Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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