When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Willa Cather

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Helen Reddy

I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things.

Satya Nadella

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

Nana Mouskouri

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

Erich Fromm, Zen Buddhism and Ps

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

Mary Kay Andrews

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Shane MacGowan

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Rory Bremner

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

W. Clement Stone

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir