"The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young."

“When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed that would pay the bills.”

“A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.”

Source : Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”

“It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.”

“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”

“By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up”

“Hello Kitty will never speak.”

“There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.”