For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.

Susan Anton

Reagan is mad. If he were here, I would tell him the truth about us. He hears about us only through hostile sources.

Muammar Gaddafi

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Alice James

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Dylan Moran

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Agnes Smedley

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it.

Jonathan Miller

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

David James Elliott