Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Out of debt, out of danger.

Proverb

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Alexander Wilson

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Samuel Johnson

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most

Mark Twain

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

Anthony Holden

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

Melina Marchetta

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

George Eliot

I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.'

Les Dawson

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Spike Milligan

Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.

Amish Tripathi

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

Virginia Woolf