You can't trust very many people.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

Ritchie Blackmore

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

Evangeline Lilly

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Dave Eggers

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

William Westmoreland

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Robert Morgan

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Wendy Cope

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.

Leonardo DaVinci

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Thomas Carlyle