France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, The U

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Al Bernstein

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

Source Unknown

The wisest have the most authority

Plato

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Alan Bennett

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

Bonnie Tyler

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Caroll Shelby

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

Kevin Smith

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Aldous Huxley

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Steve Martin