If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank McCourt

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Thomas Frank

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Terry Jones

Uccello cello cello I love myself.

Peter Levi

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

George Carey

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

Myriam Miedzian

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Tadao Ando

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Ai Weiwei

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

Maria V. Snyder

There is no gambling like politics.

Benjamin Disraeli