"Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."

“Love will turn you on your head.”

“I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).”

Source : "Erik Satie". Book by Rollo H. Myers, New York: Dover, p.135, 1968.

“My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

“I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.”

Source : "Anton Yelchin: 'This is a Terminator movie - we're gonna have a good time'" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2009.

“I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.”

“Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Source : Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

“True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.”

Source : Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc

“I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.