"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."

“Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.”

“I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.”

Source : "Emily Bett Rickards Talks ARROW, Becoming a Series Regular, Creating Her Character’s Backstory, Felicity’s Involvement Going Forward, Fandom and Romance". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 24, 2013.

“Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.”

“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.”

“I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.”

“The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.”

Source : William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.137

“No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.”

“Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.”