What is does a person profit if they gain the whole world and lose their soul.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Heston Blumenthal

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Knopfler

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Bo Schembechler

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

Barry Commoner

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Grover Cleveland

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

C.S. Lewis

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Julia Roberts

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Orison Swett Marden

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Amy Winehouse

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Henri Frederic Amiel