"You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda."

“That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.”

“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”

“It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.”

“Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.”

Source : Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

“The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.”

Source : "Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi 'Akef: Arab and Islamic Countries Should Obtain Nuclear Technology 'For Military Purposes'". MemriTV, June 2006.

“There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.”

Source : Douglas Bloch (1988). “Words That Heal: Affirmations and Meditations for Daily Living”, p.41, BookBaby

“Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.108, Canongate Books

“The initiation of the fermentation process does not require so complicated an apparatus as is represented by the living cell. The agent responsible for the fermenting action of the press juice is rather to be regarded as a dissolved substance, doubtless a protein; this will be denoted zymase.”