"I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician."

“Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

“To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.”

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.53, Celestial Arts

“The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.”

Source : Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger, Jodi Hauptman, Matthew Affron (1998). “Fernand Léger: [Exposición] The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998”, p.124, The Museum of Modern Art

“On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.”

“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.”

“Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M Eymard], had foretold to them that they would have a son who would become a priest and founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament. During the months she bore Peter Julian, Mrs. Eymard used to visit the parish church and offer him to the hidden God of the tabernacle.”

“Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.”

“You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.”