"My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them."

“Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.”

Source : Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.149, Penguin

“I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.”

“You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2006). “Inside the Shadow City”

“I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very literal word collage and from there I'll sculpt it for and whatever reason the song sort of presents itself. It's a bizarre process.”

“In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.”

Source : "Swoop, apply lipstick, swoop again" by Tanya Gold, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2009.

“Live mindful of how brief your life is.”

“You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.”

“In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.”