Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Murray Walker

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

Siobhan Fahey

Effective action is always unjust.

Jean Anouilh

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Bjork

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Larry Ellison

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero

Thomas Carlyle

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Christopher Meloni

It's the heart that really matters in the end.

Rob Thomas

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

Eliot Engel

I don't mind what the role is at all I just want to play cool characters.

Daniel Cudmore