"We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it."

“Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state”

“What gets measured gets improved.”

“The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.”

Source : "Comic-Con: George Blagden and Gustaf Skarsgard Talk VIKINGS, Favorite Moments from Season 1, and Tease Season 2". Interview with Connie Allen, collider.com. July 21, 2013.

“If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.”

Source : Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (1929). “The Great Conjecture: Who is this Jesus?”, New York : H. Holt

“I’ve been things and I've seen places.”

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

“You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding hundred dollar bills.”

“A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.”

Source : "Harbours of Memory" by William McFee, (p. 236), 1921.