I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

Utada Hikaru

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

John Green

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Oscar Wilde

My angel, - his name is Freedom, Choose him to be your king;He shall cut pathways east and west.And fend you with his wing.http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/186302/emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Boston

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

David Herbert Lawrence

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Roy Keane

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Arthur Baer

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Franz Kafka

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Herbert Spencer

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Henry Miller

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

Richard V. Allen

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Thomas Carlyle