The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Fran Drescher

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

Charles Dickens

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Pablo Picasso

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

A. C. Benson

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Peter Hammill

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them.

Ken Dodd

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Placido Domingo

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Clarence Day

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

Greta Scacchi

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Norman Vincent Peale