"I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk."

“I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.”

Source : "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1976.

“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?”

Source : "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

“Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.”

Source : "Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil". Book by Paul Bloom, 2013.

“Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.”

“Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.”

Source : "Plus-Size Model Candice Huffine Has Launched Her Own Collection and It's Fabulous". Interview with Lauren Chan, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.

“I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.”

“Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.”

“I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.”

Source : Source: collider.com