Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

Damien Hirst

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Lionel Blue

This wired generation is kind of cool.

LeVar Burton

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--''No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.

Michelle Cooper

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

Sir Winston Churchill

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

Michael Chertoff

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.

Jennifer Lopez

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

Maria Sharapova

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

James Russell Lowell

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Abraham Lincoln

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor