Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

James Dyson

here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Anthony Powell

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Socrates

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

William Hague

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

John Malkovich

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Harold Bloom

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

Sherri Shepherd

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

David Boies

The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

Alymer Letterman

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Simone de Beauvoir