"I am sorry I could not see my father."

“However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.”

“Beer was not made to be moralized about, but to be drunk.”

Source : "Carven from the laurel tree; essays".

“My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.”

“A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.”

“Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.”

“I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.”

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

“Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.”

“I work with nature, although in completely new terms.”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”