"You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close."

“Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.”

“In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.”

“When you think New York, you think Yankees.”

Source : "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.com.au. March 24, 2010.

“I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.”

Source : "The Oddly Comforting Daily Life of Tilda Swinton". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. April 11, 2014.

“All creative people want to do the unexpected.”

Source : Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

“Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.”

“After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.”

Source : "US politics live blog: Obama meets Iraqi PM; GOP rivals trade blows" by Richards Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

“I don't have sociopathic tendencies!”

Source : "Revenge is Beautiful! Emily VanCamp Talks Boys and (Easy) Beauty". Interview with Holly Siegel, www.glamour.com. January 4, 2012.