"As a tawaif, she was trained to charm the system and subvert narrow patriarchal practices by means of highly sophisticated seduction. At another level, she was a hapless victim, constantly tormented by the twists and turns of her own destiny. She braved on regardless, driven by a deep inner quest to pursue love in its purest form, as an end in itself; be it in music or in life."

"...singing sensation in the Indian subcontinent, feted by the cognoscenti and the commoner alike."

"People don't want to listen to an imitation. If they want to listen to my style, they will go and buy my records."

"The much loved classical diva of 20th century India Akhtaribai Faizabadi, or Begum Akhtar was the last of the great female singers from the courtesan (tawaif) community."

"Sztuka nie pyta o wiek, tylko oczekuje wiele."

"Kiedy miałem kilka lat, często podchodziłem do drzwi pokoju, w którym akurat ćwiczyła mama, wsłuchiwałem się w dźwięki i wyobrażałem sobie tę muzykę."

"...Kolejnym wydarzeniem festiwalu był występ Alchemy Trio w Synagodze Tempel. To znakomita krakowska wiolonczelistka Dorota Imiełowska z czarodziejem akordeonu Konradem Ligasem i równie rewelacyjnym kontrabasistą Romanem Ślazykiem. Z muzykami wystapił 16-letni Łukasz Pawlikowski, o którym śmiało można powiedzieć, że już dołączył do grona najlepszych polskich wiolonczelistów. Muzyka żydowska, którą grali / również we własnej aranżacji/ zachwycała, wzruszała i bawiła, bo to muzyka nie tylko niezwykle emocjonalna, ale i pełna humoru. To był nie tylko koncert - artyści zaprezentowali spektakl muzyczno-teatralny. Rewelacja!"

"The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy."

"I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand. If we are born to die and we all die to live, then whats the point of living life if it just contradicts?"

"I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely."

"I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!"

"This unasked-for jollity in the middle of an English afternoon left Sir Henry shivering with a red passion, his face a crumpled tissue on which a lobster might well have wiped its bottom."

"The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain..."

"Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said: WILL YOU LET GO!"

"English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. (Dot dot dot.)"

"... gauzes of filmy Fellini ..."

"Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!"

"How nice to be in England... Now that England's here, I stand upright on my wheelbarrow, And pretend I'm Boadicea."

"If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink."

"That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it."

"Willy consulted a book called I-ching. Florrie suggested calamine lotion to stop it.... Henry suggested it sounded like something a gentleman would do behind a handkerchief"

"I studied the swell of her enormous breasts and I said: "Baby you're so far ahead it's beautiful""

"Normally I pack a rod; in pyjamas I carry nothing but scars from Normandy Beach"

"earnestly humming on his way"

"I'm going to rhino over your lino"

"Wrestled Anaconda and she's a big girl"

"why do male nudists wear towels to play tennis?"

"I've been looking for that particular son of a bitch for seven years. I could have been a doctor, or an architect."

"Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas."

"Wrestle poodles...and win!"

"If you're going to say anything filthy, please speak clearly."

"Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?"

"It was a great party until someone found the hammer."

"Viv Stanshall? I didn't know that."

"And, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes. Nice!"

"Sir Henry Rawlinson disguised as Hugh Bliette:"

"If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life"

"Do have an unusual day, won't you?"

"Florrie nodded and indicated the sink:"P'rhaps you'd care to wash your hands?" "arrh no thank you M'am; I already done that against a tree before I came in here" said the Wrinkled Retainer"

"Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973, goodnight..."

"You got a light, mac? No...but I've got a dark brown overcoat."

"I've never met a man I didn't mutilate."

"The hounds are all fagged out after yesterday's Jehovah's Witnesses ... we do not want more blood all over the lawns again"

"Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ..."

"Mercifully, Henry hit him with the soft end of the pistol."

"A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp."

"Seems a novel enough way to commit suicide. Pass me m' pistol. See if I can't bring the blighter down in the lake."

"Fear is the root of all courage"

"it's the problem with Italian aeroplanes too much hair on the wings"

"Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again."