"There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything."

“I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.”

“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2015). “The Mime Order”, p.459, A&C Black

“I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.”

“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.”

“Don't listen to criticism, positive or negative. You just keep going forward.”

Source : "MJD and Arian Foster Talk “Call of Duty,” Twitter, and Fantasy Football". Interview with Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. February 3, 2011.

“I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.”

“Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.”

“Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.”