"With This Ring I give my all to you Now and my whole life through With this ring"

“It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

“I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.”

“If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.”

“No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.”

“I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.”

“Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.”

Source : "Song: 'Favorite Things' ('S.C.I.E.N.C.E.')". 1997.

“Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.”

Source : Dianne Wiest's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 30, 1987.

“When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.”