I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?

Ai Yazawa

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

G. K. Chesterton

O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Youssou N'Dour

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.

Prince Of Wales Charles

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Doug Coupland

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Stefan Waydenfeld

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

Samuel Johnson

Alone I'm nothing.

Robert Plant

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Ann Druyan