Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place,The person, manner, and the grace,Which fools neglect; so that we find,If all the requisites are join'd,From whence a perfect joke must spring,A joke's a very serious thing.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Terry Brooks

In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

Thomas Hardy

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

JeanPaul Sartre

A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

John McPhee

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Jerry Seinfeld

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Christopher Moore

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

William Shakespeare

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

Charlotte Featherstone

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

Jay Weatherill