"Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued."

“I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that it's all going to be recorded. And I have never had an experience where one of these men tried to take advantage of the situation. If they were guilty of anything it was of being lonely. It was never that they were violent or dangerous.”

“[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.”

“Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.”

“I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.”

“Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.”

“I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.”

Source : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.

“There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.155, Open Road Media

“Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.”