"This is a nasty, rotten business."

“Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

“If you think you are powerless, then you are”

“I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.”

“It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

“Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.”

“I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.”

“It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.”