The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Wilhelm Wundt

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Walken

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Maurice Sendak

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Compton Mackenzie

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Jorge Luis Borges

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Alec Cairncross