"There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were."

“The public forgot Bofors, soon they will forget this as well”

“You must make your own opportunities.”

“We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality.”

“I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.”

“I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.”

Source : "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

“Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.”

Source : Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham

“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”

“Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.”