"Let pride go afore, shame will follow after."

“It was ingrained in me to be gracious.”

Source : "Tory Burch" by Miranda Purves, www.elle.com. August 28, 2009.

“I wanted to be his dear, his darling.”

“With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.”

“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”

“I love doing every role I do!”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm McDowell Talks Killing Santa Claus in Silent Night". B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. November 30, 2012.

“The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.”

Source : Michael Polanyi (2012). “Personal Knowledge”, p.221, Routledge

“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.”

“Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.”

Source : Michael Muhammad Knight (2004). “The Taqwacores”, p.185, Autonomedia