"You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire"

“The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.”

“There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.”

Source : Roy Albert Crowson (1970). “Classification and Biology”, p.2, Transaction Publishers

“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”

“When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'”

“Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .”

“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“I had one actress who trained with me and took six Spin classes a week. And all she ate was lettuce and Swedish Fish. When the press asked her how she’d ‘transformed’ her body, she said, ‘Oh, I do yoga and hike with my puppy.’ That made me laugh. Don’t lie about how much you work out, because other women are going to think, I walk my dog, why don’t I look like that?”

Source : "Scary Celeb Diet Tricks No Woman Should Try!" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

“Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.”

Source : "The World According to Larry" by Moises Naim, foreignpolicy.com. November 11, 2009.