"We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to."

“He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.”

Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix, Obert Skye, Alan Snow, Anne Ursu, Jane Johnson (2006). “Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

“Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?”

“There is no time like the pleasant.”

Source : "The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom". Book by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant and Addison Mizner, 1905.

“I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”

“Beware the man of a single book.”

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

“You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.”

Source : "The artists' artist: cinematographers". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.