[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

John Jay Chapman

A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.

Charles Dickens

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Marcus Aurelius

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

Richie Sambora

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Robert Plant

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Dido Armstrong

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Douglas Wilson

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Calvin Coolidge

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

Anna Kendrick