I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

Jarvis Cocker

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller

apa gunanya bahwa saya terbukti benar? saya berada di sisi kebenaran?--dan dia yang tertawa pertamakali hari ini, juga akan tertawa yang terakhir

Friedrich Nietzsche

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

Harry S Truman

Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Bruce Willis

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

John Stuart Mill

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.

Marilyn Monroe, As quoted in Ms.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus