"Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce."

“Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.”

“To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.”

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”

“What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.”

“The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable”

“Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.”

“Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones.”