"I think people imitate actors - things they've seen in a movie or on TV, and before you know it, they're doing something with their face or their mouth. It's from some actor they think is cool. They might not even know they're doing it, which is kind of funny."

“It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.232, Allison & Busby

“Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.”

“It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.”

“Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.166, Penguin

“There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.”

“We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over”

“In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”

“I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.”

Source : "Is the Freedom of Information Act a good thing?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.