"I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records and play them for me. So it was in my early teens that I started to listen to jazz."

“That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.”

Source : Jim C. Hines (2007). “Goblin Hero”, p.70, Penguin

“I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.”

Source : "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

“Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.”

“I don't believe in diets.”

“I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!”

“Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI.”

“Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.”

“My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.”