The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Jose Padilha

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Thomas Jefferson

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

J.K. Rowling

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

James Brown

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

George Osborne

In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning 'do not eat this bookcase -- it can be harmful to your health'.

Bjorn Bayley

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

Marlo Thomas

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

Hosni Mubarak

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Robert Leighton

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

Steven Wright