"IfÂ you canâ€™t do anything about it, donâ€™t worry about it."

-- Jeanne Calment

“To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be
“I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.”
“I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.”
“Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).”
“We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
“Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on ...”
“Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.”
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”

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