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“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”
Source : Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada
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“Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!”
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“QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life”
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“I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They don't need a producer to come in there and tell them, "Oh, I think you should do this." I've always found it very strange that there's been such a thing as producers in jazz.”
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“Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."”
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“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.”
Source : Sarah M. Lowe, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Barbican Art Gallery (2004). “Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: the Mexico years”, Merrell Publishers
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“A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.”
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“Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.”
Source : Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinz Becker, Gudrun Becker (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer, a life in letters”, Timber Pr