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“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”
Source : Simon Winchester (1998). “The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words”
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“Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.”
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“I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.”
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“For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”
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“When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.”
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“Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.”
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“I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.”
Source : "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011. 
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“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.”
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“He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.”
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“I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.”
Source : "Gabriel Basso Makes it Look Easy". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2011.
