MuchMusic interview (1995)
“Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with”
Peter Jackson (1961) New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter
After receiving the Best Picture Oscar for "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" at the 76th Academy Awards
“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Context: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
“But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy
“I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.”
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.”
Vasily Blyukher (1889–1938) Soviet military commander
Blyukher at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b), 8 February 1934 http://www.hrono.ru/vkpb_17/25_5.html
John Horton Conway (1937) British mathematician
[Life, Death and the Monster - Numberphile, 9 May 2014, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCe5HUObD4]
“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
David Mitchell (1969) English novelist
Interview in Stop Smiling magazine (29 June 2007) http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=841&page=2]
