"The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall."

“Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

“But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.”

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”

“The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.”

“The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.”

Source : "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

“Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.”

Source : "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

“[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'”