The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

Manolo Blahnik

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Marcus Valerius Martial

Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Francis Bacon

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Albert Camus

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Jacob Bronowski

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

David Hume

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

Fiona Apple