"A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.)."

-- Tobias Smollett

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“... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.”
“It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully.”

Source : "‘Supernatural’ Season 8: Misha Collins Talks Castiel’s Big Return And More". Interview with Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.
“O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door.”

Source : JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1836). “THE CULPRIT FAY”, p.89
“I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.”
“Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.”
“That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing.”
“I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.”

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