It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Lord Kelvin

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Val Kilmer

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Thomas J. Watson

Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

Win Ng

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.

V. N. Volosinov

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

Source Unknown

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Don't focus so much on who is following you, that you forget to lead.

E'yen A. Gardner

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Kedar Joshi