"You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies."

“I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.”

Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". "Today" with Jim Naughtie, www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.

“Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.”

“The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.”

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”

“Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!”

“Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was locked away in my desk drawer. Sherlock: The lock on your desk drawer was insulting me with its pretense at security.”

“America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.”

Source : "New VIDEO: Worker Describes 'Picking' Apart Baby with Tweezers at Planned Parenthood" by Katie Yoder, www.newsbusters.org. July 28, 2015.

“I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.”

Source : "Interview: Amy Smart" by Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.