I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Ralph Steadman

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Benjamin Franklin

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

Ryan Tedder

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Vivienne Westwood

Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.

Baron Lane

Criticism always follows worthwhile action. The opposite is seldom true.

Torley Wong

The basis of life is absolute freedom. The objective of life is absolute joy. The result of life is absolute growth.

Esther Hicks

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Charles Stanley

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Dale Dauten

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Charles II