"The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective."

“So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.”

“The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.”

“Whatever; bling always has something to hide.”

“I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.”

Source : "Grimes Wrote a Tumblr Manifesto Against Sexism" by Amanda Dobbins, www.vulture.com. April 24, 2013.

“I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

“Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

“There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com

“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source : G.E.M. Anscombe (2011). “Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe”, p.190, Andrews UK Limited