"Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried."

“Walk on air against your better judgement.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.417, Macmillan

“I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.”

Source : "A Minute With: Jason Sudeikis getting a 'Hall Pass'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 23, 2011.

“A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and...actually, no it's just those two things.”

Source : Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.194, Hachette UK

“Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.”

“Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.”

“But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.”

“As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.”

“Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.”

Source : Wess Roberts (2007). “Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun”, p.35, Hachette UK