"The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system."

“All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.”

“The secret is I have no shame.”

Source : "50 Shades of Grey's Dakota Johnson Revs Up for the Role of a Lifetime", www.elle.com. February 6, 2014.

“Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

“She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.”

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.”

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place....”

“When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?”

“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc