You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

William Pitt

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

George Bernard Shaw

I mean, you could claim that real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's it doesn't exist!

J.K. Rowling

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Eddie Izzard

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Princess of Wales Diana

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Edward Sapir

Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Samuel Johnson

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Studs Terkel

don't talk, I will listen don't talk, you keep your distance I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies

Natalie Merchant

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

Katey Sagal

I'd rather be a rising ape than a fallen angel.

Terry Pratchett

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Martin Van Buren