Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Eric Clapton

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

Jennifer Garner

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

Lisa Kleypas

I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?

Nick Lachey

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Noam Chomsky

ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton

Far from the madding crowd

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

Kenneth Clarke