"It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch."

“Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.”

“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”

“Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

“There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell”

“After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.”

Source : "How to talk to your child about the Islamic State". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

“None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.”

“Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

“When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.”