"We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale."

“My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.”

“So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety.”

“I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.”

Source : Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

“It's important to work out & be the best version of yourself that you can be but never feel like you have to be the skinniest girl in the room to be the prettiest.”

“Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.”

Source : "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

“We're terrified of shocks but we're so fascinated by it at the same time. We're terrified of spiders and reptiles and all of that but at the same time you're fascinated by them - you want to go to the zoo and go behind the glass and look at all these creepy crawlies! It's the same thing with the supernatural. I think we're very frightened by it.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk