I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Cher

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Kedar Joshi

Greville Fane's French and Italian were droll; the imitative faculty had been denied her, and she had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. She knew it, but she didn't care; correctness was the virtue in the world that, like her heroes and heroines, she valued least.

Henry James, Greville Fane from

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Marcel Duchamp

Who can direct when all pretend to know?

Oliver Goldsmith

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

Joey Lauren Adams

When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.

Haruki Murakami

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Abu Bakar Bashir

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Chris Barber