The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Mira Nair

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

Kevin Mitnick

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Oscar Wilde

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

Patricia Highsmith

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

Jesse Plemons

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

Iain Banks

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Mao Zedong

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity

David Hume

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Gustave Flaubert