Julio Cortazar // "All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."
Isabella Rossellini // "It seems to me that I'm a tourist to life...I'm an observer of it."
Jean-Paul Belmondo // "To be a champion, you have to sacrifice everything."
Francis Bacon // "The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness...it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure..."
Jane Fonda // "Everyone should know the feeling of overcoming...and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy."
Rudolf Nureyev // "Before a performance, everything I do...is a way of becoming acquainted with the inevitable fact that I must go out there...that I have to dance. You have to assume that frightening responsibility. Really, what it boils down to is that we are paid for our fear."
Tim Berners-Lee // "When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. I want you to realize that, if you can imagine a computer doing something, you can program a computer to do that. Unbounded opportunity...limited only by your imagination."
Oscar de la Renta // "Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things, it's about living in a way where you appreciate things."
Michele Lamy // "I follow a flow of attraction and try to make a living out of it."
Glenn Gould // "The trouble begins when we start to be...impressed by the strategies of our systemized thought. And when that happens...all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality."
Mirza Masroor Ahmad // “It is surely our duty to care for and respect one another, and the best way to practically demonstrate this esteem is to consider the feelings and sentiments of each other...that is the primary way to establish good human values...it is the only way to develop an environment filled with peace... It should be our goal to establish such high values in every village, every town, every city, every country...and indeed every part of the world.”
Carl Sagan // "In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant...And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it... They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky."