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“Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.”
Source : "I've devised a game for bland celebrity interviews: swap one star's questions with another's answers" by Sharon Horgan, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2008.
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“I like to be surrounded by splendid things.”
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“One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.”
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“My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.”
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“To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.”
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“In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.”
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“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”
Source : Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128
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“There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com