"I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'""

“What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.”

“There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.”

“If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of American Idol through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?”

Source : "Television Debates Are Antiquated" by Ruzwana Bashir, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2012.

“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”

“The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.”

“Don't ever call me a bottler on the radio with thousands of people listening”

“I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.

“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.136, Yale University Press