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“Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture ‘cause you’re too busy recording it - so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.”
Source : "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.
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“Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.”
Source : Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.163, Chronicle Books
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“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
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“People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.”
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“The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.”
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“I cannot go to sleep without reading.”
Source : "Five Questions with Julianne Hough". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009. 
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“As a parent, the goal is not to get to the other end. It's just simply to protect the children that you're responsible for - and protect their hearts - and, wherever they're headed, to get (them) there safely. That involves patience, time and willingness to listen.”
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“When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.”
Source : Randy Alcorn (2015). “Happiness”, p.71, NavPress
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“We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.”
Source : "The Inflection Is Near?" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. Match 7, 2009.
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“I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.”
