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“Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore-all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.”
Source : "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010. 
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“I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.”
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“The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.”
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“I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.”
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“Being in the studio is a really romantic time.”
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“And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.”
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“I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.”
Source : "Alessandra Torresani Gets Inside Caprica's Prime Cylon". Interview with Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. January 21, 2010.
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“It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.”
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“A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.”
Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions
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“It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.”
Source : Andrew Sarris (1996). “The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968”, Da Capo Pr
