"I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit."

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

“At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.”

“George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!”

“Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.”

“No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.”

“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.162, e-artnow

“I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.”

“Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.”