“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.” –Douglas Adams

INTERVIEWER: “Do you guys geek out over other shows?”

(Matt Smith holds up a True Blood magazine)

KAREN: “I’ve never watched it, so I didn’t know who anyone was!”

MATT: “And I was like, oh my god, you don’t understand. Eric Northman is over there!”

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” – Mitch Albom

“A key aspect of addiction is the inability to seek or accept help, since the quest for chemical escape, stems from terminal self reliance.” -Simon Pegg

“If you want to know why we are switching guitars so much, it’s just because we’re showing off.” –Paul McCartney

“Why does one feel so different at night? Why is it so exciting to be awake when everybody else is asleep? Late—it is very late! And yet every moment you feel more and more wakeful, as though you were slowly, almost with every breath, waking up into a new, wonderful, far more thrilling and exciting world than the daylight one. And what is this queer sensation that you’re a conspirator? Lightly, stealthily you move about your room. You take something off the dressing-table and put it down again without a sound. And everything, even the bed-post, knows you, responds, shares your secret…” –Katherine Mansfield, “At The Bay”, in The Garden Party

“I think the most important part of anyone’s life, you know, is who you are sharing it with.” – Martin Freeman

“The other side of genealogy that I love is the fact that it proves how intimately interwoven in history we are. We are all these little flecks being cast around in the wind of history, and we’ve settled and grown in this particular crack in the pavement. But the puff of history could have blown in another direction and we could have grown in another crack in another pavement.” –Stephen Fry

‎” … let’s just let this big old tree grow right out of the brush, there it comes. Something about like that. And that helps push that whole mountain back into the distance. There. Bet you never knew a tree could push a mountain, but it can. It can …” -Bob Ross

“Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best economies in the world, they have universal health care, and subsidized education, it has had the highest Human Development Index 7 years in a row, and it’s never started a pointless war, given tax breaks to the richest, and created Jersey Shore — yet it’s America that knows best.” –Matthew Trevithick responding to the story “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism”

“As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn’t work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully. I’d just rather sit at home and read, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh. There’s no shame in enjoying the quiet life. And that’s been the realisation of the past few years for me.” –Daniel Radcliffe

“The heart is the first feature of working minds.” - Frank Lloyd Wright 

“Funny thing, Amy Poehler lives in my building.” “At Hogwarts?” – Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Stewart

“I guess I had a pretty normal childhood, for somebody growing up in the ghetto section of Detroit. I mean, I grew up in a neighborhood where Diana Ross lived right down the street from me and Aretha Franklin lived around the corner and the Four Tops lived two blocks over and the Temptations lived about four blocks away. You know this is where I grew up. It was the era of the doo-wop groups, and in Detroit at the time, you were either in a gang or a group, and so I chose to be in a group.” - Smokey Robinson on growing up in Detroit in the 1950s