"I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up."

“Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.”

“Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.”

“A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.”

“Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.”

“Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.”

Source : John Buchan (2016). “RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection – 7 Mystery & Espionage Books in One Volume (Unabridged): The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, The Island of Sheep, The Courts of the Morning & The Green Wildebeest”, p.1471, e-artnow

“Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low”

Source : "Die 7 Geheimnisse der Dirigenten-Legende". Bild.de, April 4, 2008.

“We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.”