"Gentlemen talk of the Age of Chivalry but remember the ploughmen, poachers and pickpockets they lead. It is with these sad instruments great warriors and kings have been doing their murderous work in the world"

- From Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

Source: Barry Lyndon Transcript. Available from URL http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/barry-lyndon-script-transcript-kubrick.html [Downloaded 26.01.2011].

"It is well to dream of glorious war in a snug armchair. It is a different thing to see it first hand"

- From Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

Source: Barry Lyndon Transcript. Available from URL http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/barry-lyndon-script-transcript-kubrick.html [Downloaded 26.01.2011].

"Dry bones can harm no one"

- T.S. Eliot. Waste Land (1922)

Source: Eliot, T.S. Waste Land. 1922. Available from URL http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ [Downloaded 25.01.2011].

"He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience"

- T.S. Eliot. Waste Land (1922)

Source: Eliot, T.S. Waste Land. 1922. Available from URL http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ [Downloaded 25.01.2011].

"So long, Marcel. Well, that's over. It has been a truism of the past 100 years, since marcel Duchamp re-presented an everyday object as a work of art, that the most interesting, the most relevant, the most advanced art grappled with its place in the world and as a part of that world, whether on the level of intention or consumption. 2010 was the year when the most visible, talked about, written of, bought and sold contemporary art took flight from the viscissitudes of the everyday, and definitely separated itself from the urgencies of life on this planet."

- Laura Hoptman, curator in the Department of Painting and Drawings, MoMa, New York, U.S.A, quoted in Frieze Art Magazine.

Source: Laura Hoptman in Looking Back/Looking Forward. Frieze. Issue 136, january-February 2011. p. 89.

"I think one of the things that showed the people of the world was that even if there is a great catastrophe, good leadership and teamwork, initiative and perseverance - these things make for getting an almost certain catastrophe into a successful recovery."


- Jim Lovell, NASA-astronaut and commander of Apollo 13


Source: Rincon, Paul. Apollo 1: From Disaster to triumph. BBC online. Available from URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8613766.stm [Downloaded 11.01.10].  

"And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out my memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored. In a way, it was an advantage."

- Meursault, in Camus' The Stranger, Part 2, ch.2 

Source: Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Downloaded [2011-01-06] from Allgreatquotes.com URL: http://www.allgreatquotes.com/the_stranger_quotes_the_outsider.shtml