"Times have changed. The athletes have changed."

“If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

“I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.”

“Read two old books for every new one.”

“I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.”

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”

“He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.”

“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead”

Source : "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

“The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.”

Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee