"You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough."

“Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.42, Broadway Books

“I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

“The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad”

“Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!”

“Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.285, Random House

“Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.”

“I come up with new ambitions all the time - and the coolest thing is, I think of something I want to do, and I don't really imagine it as "Oh, I've never done that." I think of it as, "Oh, I haven't done that yet." I literally believe I'm going to do everything I set out to do, which is a pretty amazing feeling.”

Source : "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

“For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.”