"If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal."

“I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes.”

Source : "Kimberly Caldwell Reveals Her Style Secrets and Her Pick for American Idol Winner". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2009.

“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?”, p.51, Macmillan

“Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.”

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

“There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.”

Source : Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.459, Open Road Media

“Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.”

“No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.”

“To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.”

Source : "Rod Taylor, Star of 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2015.