"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

“You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?”

Source : "Rachel Bloom Upends Romantic Comedy Tropes On 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 17, 2017.

“The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.”

Source : "Kevin Ayers: 'I never considered another profession' - one of his final interviews". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

“When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.”

Source : "‘Game Of Thrones’ Arya Stark Speaks: Maisie Williams On Season 3 Finale, Her Red Wedding Vine". Interview With Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.

“Observation capitalizes inspiration.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

“No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.”

“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams....”

“No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.”

“Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance”

Source : "Privy counsels" by A.C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.