No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Rose Elizabeth Bird

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Tori Amos

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems dis

Albert Einstein

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

Donald Knuth

Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!

Stephen Richards

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Lucy Powell

Wit is cultured insolence.

Aristotle

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Philip Roth

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

Oswald Chambers, Daily Thoughts,

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Aristophanes

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch