Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant, too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets. All were dressed in indeterminate shades of grey and brown, never even a blue feather pinned to a hat. None had the courage to be one thing rather than another. What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you chained me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into the wastepaper basket with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Thomas Alva Edison

Smartass Disciple: Master, what do say about the truth itself ?Master of Stupidity: Like sex, no fun anymore if all is revealed.

Toba Beta

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

Sally Kirkland

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Tom Hooper

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Donna Summer

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.

Francis Bacon

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Victor Hugo

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

Michael Rapaport

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.

Richard Stallman

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

Mira Nair