You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

Bryan White

I saw how all the trembling ages past, Moulded to her by deep and deeper breath, Neared to the hour when Beauty breathes her last And knows herself in death.

George William Russell

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Aaron Klug

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Joan Collins

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic my shadow.

Steven Wright

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armour against fate;Death lays his icy hands on kings.

James Shirley, Contention of Aja

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Linda Vester

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Rene Magritte