"Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money."

“Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same time. It's really strange. They kind of manage to do two things at once. We do a ballad, or a dance song, and it's very difficult. They kind of mix those two things together. It's pretty impressive, beautiful music.”

“I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.”

“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”

“I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.”

“It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.”

Source : William Baziotes, Michael Preble (1988). “William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984”

“I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.”

“Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement”

Source : Masaaki Imai (2012). “Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”