"Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring."

“By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.”

“Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”

“There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.”

Source : Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.153

“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”

“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”

“The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.”

Source : Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

“I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.”

Source : Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”