"I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees."

-- Peter Weir

#Bird Quotes #Tree Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.”
“The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.”
“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.”
“I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.
“It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.”
“Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.”
“Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.”

Source : "Message to the Public," Times (London), 11 Feb. 1913

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