"... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ... that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against."

“Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.”

Source : "Sachin Tendulkar's 'three metre wide bat' makes Test cricket tough: Michael Hussey". www.dnaindia.com. October 19, 2010.

“I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?”

“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”

“As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.”

“Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.”

“I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.249, eBookIt.com

“Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.”

Source : "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.

“But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.”