The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them. – Octavio Paz
‘Blade Runner’ was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically. – Ridley Scott
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. – Roman Jakobson
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. – Robin Trower
By many peoples’ standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I’m a virtuoso. – Robert Quine
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving. – Robertson Davies