I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Edward Fischer

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Ibrahim Babangida

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

Terry Pratchett

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Charlie Chaplin

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Orson Welles

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

Cassandra Clare