"Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data."

“There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is from Superman II," and you're thinking, "Ummm, no it's not." Or, "There's a shot from Matrix Revolutions." I'm thinking, "I've only seen Matrix Revolutions once, and will never watch it ever again."”

Source : "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

“Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.”

“The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.”

“The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.”

“Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.”

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

Source : Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”

“War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.”

Source : Cornelia Meigs (1987). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”, Scholastic