At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Andrew Lo

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

David Bowie

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Ruby Dee

The lotus flower is troubledAt the sun's resplendent light;With sunken head and sadlyShe dreamily waits for the night.

Heinrich Heine, Book of SongsLyr

Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.

Flavius Josephus

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Johnny Vegas

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

Jodi Picoult

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

Orson Scott Card

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandara Carey