"Luck does indeed favor the well prepared."

“If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.”

“It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The next page would be People I Have Slept With and then another list. Then the last page would be Famous People I Have Partied With and then another list. Because that's all people write in their autobiographies. Cut out all the bullshit and it's just a three-page pamphlet.”

Source : "The Cribs' Ryan Jarman: 'This is the only job I can do ... McDonald's wouldn't employ me'". Interview With Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.

“Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.”

“I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.”

“I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.”

“I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.”

“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.”

Source : "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos : A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

“faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.2348, e-artnow