Ian McKellen // "Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play...then go for it."
Lauren Bacall // "Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world."
John Lennon // "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
Barack Obama // "What sustains our relationship...has to do with the fact that she is at once completely familiar to me, so that I can be myself and she knows me very well and I trust her completely, but at the same time she is also a complete mystery to me in some ways. And there are times when we are lying in bed and I look over and sort of have a start. Because I realize here is this other person who is separate and different and has different memories and backgrounds and thoughts and feelings. It’s that tension between familiarity and mystery that makes for something strong, because, even as you build a life of trust and comfort and mutual support, you retain some sense of surprise or wonder about the other person."
Samuel Beckett // "The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."
Michelangelo Antonioni // "I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why."
Jimi Hendrix // "To change the world, you must first change your mind."
John Cleese // "Research has shown that constant relocation in childhood is often associated with creativity. It seems that the creative impulse is sparked by the need to reconcile contrasting views of the world. If you move home, you start living a slightly different life, so you compare it with your previous life, note the divergences and the similarities, see what you like better and what you miss, and as you do so, your mind becomes more flexible and capable of combining thoughts and ideas in new and fresh ways."
Whoopi Goldberg // "It never occurs to me that there are things that I cannot do."
Tennessee Williams // "The world is violent and mercurial...it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love...love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love."
Alexander McQueen // "I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago."
Joe Strummer // "People can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks...and I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything...this is something that I'm beginning to learn."