"If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen."

“I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.”

“Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering. And if I'd end up by roaring with all of its power of lungs and more - the comets, distressed, would wring their hands and from the sky's roof leap in a fever.”

Source : Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.”

“I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.”

“I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.”

“Yes, I am very prolific.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Man on the Bridge; Leconte Balances Classic and Contemporary with 'Widow'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2001.

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

Source : "Jorge Luis Borges 112th birthday marked by Google Doodle", www.telegraph.co.uk. August 24, 2011.

“Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.”

Source : "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.