"I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't."

-- Andrew Lloyd Webber

“The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.”
“It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.”
“For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.”

Source : "Out of the traps" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.
“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
“Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.”
“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times itâ€™s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.329, Spiegel & Grau
“The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.”
“We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.”

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