"I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare."

“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.”

“In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.”

“The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.”

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

Source : Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”

“That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.”

“I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.”

“The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.”