"As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy."

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”

Source : Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.239, Univ of California Press

“Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.”

Source : Orientalism introduction (1978)

“The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press

“Is almost a good enough reason for fear?”

Source : Beth Revis (2012). “A Million Suns: An Across the Universe Novel”, p.164, Penguin

“You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.”

“But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.”

Source : "Anne Hathaway: Jokes about Oscar speech 'get to me'". www.today.com. February 26, 2013.

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.”

Source : Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.172, Macmillan

“The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.”