„On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.“

— Helena Bonham Carter

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„I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.“
— Haruki Murakami
„When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„What I try to appeal through my works is simple. The opinion is just a simple message that follows: "Love all the creatures! Love everything that has life"! I have been trying to express this message in every one of my works. Though it has taken the different forms like "the presentation of nature," "the blessing of life," "the suspicion of too much science-oriented civilisation," anti-war and so on.“
— Osamu Tezuka