"I’m more concerned about helping humanity through my art"

“...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.”

“What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1845). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.90

“All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

“For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)”

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”

“Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.”

“What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?”

Source : James Hogg, James Thomson, Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Scottish Gothic: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The City of Dreadful Night, A Beleaguered City”, p.108, Palimpsest Book Production Limited

“Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief, that the idea of magnetism attracting something was not the reason why the effects of what we call gravity occur.”