"If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience."

“The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.”

Source : "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.

“The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.”

“A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.”

“I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.”

“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”

“Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.”

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books