I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

O man! Take heed!What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?I slept my sleep--,From deepest dream I've woke, and plead: The world is deep, And deeper than the day could read.Deep is its woe--,Joy--deeper still than grief can be:Woe saith: Hence! Go!But joys all want eternity,Want deep, profound eternity!

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Drunken

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

Aron Ralston

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

Sienna Miller

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

Talib Kweli

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Shirley Chisholm

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

John Astin

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

Ian Botham

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger