"Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime."

“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”

“It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”

“Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond”

“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”

“I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com

“Believe it or not, goals can change a game.”

“Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

“never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.”