Imparts Def Quotes

#1. I'm not a great piano player.

Norah Jones

#2. I am so not technically proficient at all.

Monica Potter

#3. At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the mercy of Periscope, Twitter, or an Angry Bird of some description. People are shackled to their mediocrity by companies and businesses who want to consume your life with theirs.

Daniel Gillies

#4. I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or the lethargy of boredom. Hard work is the final solution - it prevents all of the above.' - Voltaire

Shane Joseph

#5. In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

George Friedman

#6. You're too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night."
"You should put that on a greeting card.

SE Zbasnik

#7. Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.

Elaine Morgan

#8. We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere - but it was proving impossible. Banter was the only register we seemed capable of and without it we'd lost all means of communication.

Catherine Sanderson

#9. Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

Mary J. Blige

#10. You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

Alison Jackson

#11. Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

David Mamet

#12. Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.

Rhys Bowen

#13. Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Lois Wyse