"Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!"

“It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.”

“Consistency is very important when you're making films.”

“I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.”

Source : "Sir William Mulock Reviews the Past". The Newmarket Era, pp. 1-2, news.ourontario.ca. April 06, 1934.

“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.”

“Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.”

“But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.”

“I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

“The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.”

Source : "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.