"When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful."

“Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.”

“I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.”

Source : "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

“Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.”

“But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.”

“I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.”

“Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning?" "I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever," said Eugenides. "Pol used to say that," said Sounis, surprised. "I learned it from him. I just wish to my god that I had his patience for the process.”

“My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.”

Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”