Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

James Buchan

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

Michael Chertoff

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bobby Vinton

I married beneath me; all women do.

Nancy Astor

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Jodi Picoult

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Robert A. Heinlein

Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad.

Frank Zappa

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

Ernest Bramah

Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: He's unknown!

Ambrose Bierce

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian

Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume