And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endanger temples by night, embrace statues, and want by all means to unveil, uncover, and put into a bright light whatever is kept concealed for good reasons. N

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Valerie Bertinelli

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

Birdy

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Victor Hugo

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

Florence Welch

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them

Mark Haddon

Money confounds subordination

Samuel Johnson

You're alive, that means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.

Neil Gaiman

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Sir Edward Coke

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean de la Bruyere