At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

Pete Hautman

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

Nicolas Cage

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Marcus Manilius

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Peter Mayhew

Truth allows no choice

Samuel Johnson

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Edmond de Goncourt

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

Elton John

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Rachel Roy

Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' Then he added, 'Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish wonderful though he is.

Ernest Hemingway