To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Chris Martin

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

Elton John

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Charles Foster Bass

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

David Herbert Lawrence

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Hugo

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Willa Cather