There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.

When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.

Chris Evans

There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Louis Malle

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

Ziggy Marley

National Observer became my road gig out of San Francisco. I was too much for them. I would wander in on off hours drunk and obviously on drugs, asking for my messages. Essentially, they were working for me. They liked me, ,but I was the Bull in the China Shop --- The more I wrote about politics the more they realized who they had on their hands. they knew I wouldn't change and neither would they.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth the trouble. People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/bernice/bernice.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bob

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

Otto von Bismarck

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Thomas Jefferson

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Stephen Harper