"I'll kill the first man that bothers me,"

“The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.”

Source : Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.350, Picador Australia

“Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”

“I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.”

“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.”

Source : Speech by Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas on the occasion of the signing of the Belém Statement, Lisbon, europa.eu. July 13, 2017.

“Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.”

“It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.”

“We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.”

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.”