There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, 'I want a bit of that'. It kind of forced me to get to know my family again. Another reason why he's so lovely.

Billie Piper

A girl phoned me and said, Come on over there's nobody home, I went over nobody was home

Rodney Dangerfield

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Ernest Hemingway

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Henrietta Szold

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Stephen Fry

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

Janet Fitch

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable

George Bernard Shaw