"The living grave of crime."

“Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)”

“At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.”

“I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.”

“A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.”

“I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.”

“Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.”

Source : "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2008). “The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights"”, p.95, Simon and Schuster