Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Terry Pratchett

A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

John McPhee

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Bob Dylan

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Satyajit Ray

Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Eggleston

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Germain G. Glien

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Ugo Betti

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hoskins

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

Yiddish Proverb

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Franz Kafka