If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Kurt Vonnegut

That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.

Samuel Johnson

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Well, don't just pray to marry the one you love; Instead, pray to love the one you marry.

Spencer W. Kimball

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Will Oldham

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

George Borrow

To do a great right do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

Daniel Craig

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Edward Dahlberg

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Marcel Proust

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos