I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

Maria Sharapova

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

James Broughton

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Drew Barrymore

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Sam Mendes

'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease

William Makepeace Thackeray

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward F. Halifax

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Homer

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Gore Vidal

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Thomas Henry Huxley