For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Gary Ross

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.

Julian Barnes

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

Gary Numan

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Agnes Repplier

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Allen Tate

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Neville Kenneth Wran