"All these niggas that have good music have longevity."

“This first murder, it’s like first love, it’s unforgettable.”

“The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

Source : Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.37, Faber & Faber

“English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.”

Source : "High court hears campaign reform case" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

“It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.”

“There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”

“As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.”

“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”

“I would not think to touch the sky with two arms”

Source : Sappho, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation”