"Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden."

“There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.”

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.176, Zed Books Ltd.

“The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

“I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a Jurassic Park.”

Source : "Australia's latest export, Frances O'Connor" by Akin Ojumu, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2000.

“Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.”

“There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.”

“Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.”

Source : Nick Carter (2013). “Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It”, p.201, Bird Street Books

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

Source : Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Source : Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books