"Friendships are discovered rather than made."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.”
“Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster
“For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.”
“Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you, to be around you, to be influenced by you.”

Source : Roger Dawson (2008). “Secrets of Power: Persuasion for Salespeople: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.”
“In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.”

Source : "'American Idol' vets Bo Brice, constantine Maroulis can't stop rocking'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. May 24, 2007.
“We all know the moon isn't made out of blue cheese...but if it was made out of bbq spare ribs would you eat it?”

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