When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

There is no end of creativity if you have mind.

Mini Garg

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Johann Georg Hamann

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

Miranda Hart

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

Michael Polanyi

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Michelle Bachelet

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Virgil Thomson

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Mark Twain

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan