"If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you."

“You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.”

“I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.”

“We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.”

“I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.”

“I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.”

“Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.”

“Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.”

Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.306, A&C Black

“There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.”

Source : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen