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“Im a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.”
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“It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.”
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“The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).”
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“Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.”
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“What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.”
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“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”
Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.
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“When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.”
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“Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?”
Source : "Powell speaks with forked tongue" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2003. 
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“Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.”
Source : W. Bruce Cameron (2013). “The Dogs of Christmas”, p.165, Macmillan
