"Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere."

“There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.”

“If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.”

“I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.”

Source : "Javier Bardem Interview: Skyfall". Interview, au.askmen.com. October 29, 2012.

“The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.”

Source : "Standards Relating to the Urban Police Function" by Frank J. Remington, American Bar Association: Advisory Committee on the Police Function, (p. 2), 1972.

“The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.”

Source : "Stella Vespertina". Book by Georges Rouault, 1947.

“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”

“It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.”

“With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.”

Source : Ladislav Sutnar (1961). “Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes”