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“Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.”
Source : William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, John Wiley & Sons
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“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”
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“Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.”
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“I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.”
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“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.”
Source : Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso
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“Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.”
Source : Roger Casement's speech from the dock, 1916.
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“Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself”
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“I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.”
