His quotes tell me he was a practical man, steady and down to earth but not boring. He made a great contribution to society. Thank you for the quotes, Don, they are perfect to start the work week.

Love the Faraday quotes, thanks. Alice Meynell is for me unknown, but according to her quotes, I have to look up her writing. Don't know where page 1 of the quotes emigrated to, not to my computer. Got to check later.

Anne Rice Quotes American - Novelist Born: October 4, 1941 Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. Anne Rice When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. Anne Rice Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. Anne Rice Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. Anne Rice To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. Anne Rice We're frightened of what makes us different. Anne Rice Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. Anne Rice The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. Anne Rice People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. Anne Rice I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. Anne Rice First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Anne Rice Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. Anne Rice I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. Anne Rice The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. Anne Rice I can't keep up with Stephen King's output. Anne Rice You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. Anne Rice We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. Anne Rice Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. Anne Rice I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. Anne Rice I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. Anne Rice When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box. Anne Rice To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. Anne Rice What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. Anne Rice We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. Anne Rice There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. Anne Rice The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Anne Rice The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. Anne Rice The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. Anne Rice The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write. Anne Rice That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. Anne Rice My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. Anne Rice It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. Anne Rice I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. Anne Rice I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways. Anne Rice I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. Anne Rice I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. Anne Rice I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love. Anne Rice I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. Anne Rice I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here. Anne Rice I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out. Anne Rice I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. Anne Rice I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them. Anne Rice I do want to go another way - to write something completely different. Anne Rice I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. Anne Rice I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. Anne Rice I broke with my religion in college. Anne Rice Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough. Anne Rice Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless. Anne Rice I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. Anne Rice Susan Sarandon Quotes American - Actress Born: October 4, 1946 To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. Susan Sarandon I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions. Susan Sarandon Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves. Susan Sarandon It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements. Susan Sarandon I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. Susan Sarandon If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving. Susan Sarandon When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon Children reinvent your world for you. Susan Sarandon We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States. Susan Sarandon I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point. Susan Sarandon I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. Susan Sarandon I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need. Susan Sarandon I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family. Susan Sarandon Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. Susan Sarandon When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.' Susan Sarandon Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate. Susan Sarandon It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job. Susan Sarandon Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us? Susan Sarandon I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. Susan Sarandon In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with. Susan Sarandon It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. Susan Sarandon The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess. Susan Sarandon The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids. Susan Sarandon Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier. Susan Sarandon So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality. Susan Sarandon I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. Susan Sarandon You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with. Susan Sarandon

Peter Jackson Quotes New Zealander - Director Born: October 31, 1961 The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. Peter Jackson Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. Peter Jackson In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities. Peter Jackson As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' Peter Jackson One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. Peter Jackson I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. Peter Jackson If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. Peter Jackson As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen. Peter Jackson Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves. Peter Jackson 100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? Peter Jackson New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. Peter Jackson To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. Peter Jackson We've all forgotten how to be original. Peter Jackson Rivalry doesn't help anybody. Peter Jackson There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. Peter Jackson I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. Peter Jackson There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. Peter Jackson People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards. Peter Jackson Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. Peter Jackson Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is. Peter Jackson Once upon a time, sound was new technology. Peter Jackson I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work. Peter Jackson I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. Peter Jackson Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. Peter Jackson I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with. Peter Jackson Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. Peter Jackson Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them. Peter Jackson What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. Peter Jackson Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. Peter Jackson I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. Peter Jackson We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting. Peter Jackson Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' Peter Jackson I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. Peter Jackson If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before. Peter Jackson It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. Peter Jackson Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. Peter Jackson Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film. Peter Jackson I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work. Peter Jackson 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. Peter Jackson I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. Peter Jackson I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible. Peter Jackson 48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that. Peter Jackson To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films. Peter Jackson I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly. Peter Jackson The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. Peter Jackson The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. Peter Jackson When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. Peter Jackson We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. Peter Jackson Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. Peter Jackson It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. Peter Jackson It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier. Peter Jackson Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off. Peter Jackson No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. Peter Jackson The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. Peter Jackson You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet. Peter Jackson Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in. Peter Jackson I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo! Peter Jackson In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare. Peter Jackson I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. Peter Jackson Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. Peter Jackson The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot. Peter Jackson If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. Peter Jackson One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. Peter Jackson Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. Peter Jackson The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making. Peter Jackson You never make movies for Oscars. Peter Jackson To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. Peter Jackson I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie! Peter Jackson Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome. Peter Jackson Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. Peter Jackson I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently. Peter Jackson It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. Peter Jackson If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. Peter Jackson I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie. Peter Jackson If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. Peter Jackson What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. Peter Jackson I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. Peter Jackson I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment. Peter Jackson We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies. Peter Jackson I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. Peter Jackson Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. Peter Jackson You can't always look at life as a miserable thing. Peter Jackson I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. Peter Jackson I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to. Peter Jackson I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. Peter Jackson I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. Peter Jackson The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.' Peter Jackson We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made. Peter Jackson There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.' Peter Jackson I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. Peter Jackson I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. Peter Jackson For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. Peter Jackson I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. Peter Jackson There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me. Peter Jackson When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script. Peter Jackson Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. Peter Jackson I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. Peter Jackson I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. Peter Jackson People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s. Peter Jackson In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. Peter Jackson I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. Peter Jackson Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it. Peter Jackson Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process. Peter Jackson When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together. Peter Jackson Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little. Peter Jackson To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on. Peter Jackson