The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. – Attributed to W. Somerset Maugham
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Idly curious race of grammarians, ye who dig up by the roots the poetry of others; unhappy bookworms that walk on thorns, defilers of the great… away with you, bugs that bite secretly the eloquent. – Antiphanes of Macedonia, in The Greek Anthology, Volume IV, “Book XI: The Conviv
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition…. [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem… send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality. – Frances Brooke, Lady Julia Mandeville , 1763
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. – Colin Greenwood
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isnt putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. Its believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. – Haley Joel Osment
