"It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it."

“We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.”

“Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.”

“It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.”

“President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.”

Source : "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

“Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling. The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe, that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point not just through assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but also personality.”

“The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.”

Source : Newcastle Medical Journal Vol. 12 (1932)

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

“I've been lucky to have played a lot of women, over the years, especially in the sci-fi genre. All of them are special to me, in different ways, and I hate comparing them because it's like comparing people. They're different.”

Source : Source: collider.com