I am a hopeless romantic.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Bill Gates

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Francis Bacon

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself

Benjamin Franklin

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Stephen Collins

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Phyllis McGinley

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Naveen Andrews

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Gertrude Stein

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Michael Gove