It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Maxim Gorky

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Brenda Blethyn

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am

Abigail Van Buren

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Gary Wright

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Michael Fish

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

Ray Davies

I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

John Squire

We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Thomas Troward

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

Robert Dale Owen

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Reed Hastings

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Miranda Kerr