"He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart."

“For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.”

“My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.”

“I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.”

“Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 21, 2016

“Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.”

“The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

“My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who want to do that. I plan to keep her eco-friendly as she gets older. I think we all sort of have to do it.”

“In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.”

Source : Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.29, Vintage