"the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all."

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”

“I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads”

“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”

“He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.375, e-artnow

“If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.”

Source : Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.236, Routledge

“Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.”

“The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend itself against India. The problem was that once Pakistan acquired the weapons, it allowed the country to be more aggressive. So they stepped up their support for the Kashmiri terrorists, and it led very quickly to the Kargil crisis in 2000, which almost sparked a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.