"Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special."

“The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education”

“It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.”

“There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

Source : "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq". Book by Thomas E. Ricks, armedforcesjournal.com. July 2006.

“I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'”

“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”

“[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.”

“The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.163, Penguin