The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

George Porter

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, What are you going to be when you grow up? and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

Gwen Stefani

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Jimmy Stewart

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

Geoffrey Boycott

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.

Thomas Jefferson

I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.

Rebecca Donovan

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Immanuel Kant

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Dolly Parton