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“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
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“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.”
Source : "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015. 
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“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”
Source : "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
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“To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.”
Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing
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“We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.”
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“A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.”
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“Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.”
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“I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”
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“Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.”
Source : "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.
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“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”
