Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

Craig Ferguson

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.

Jacques Barzun

Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.

B. E. Hutchinson

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

Johnny Vegas

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

Tiger Woods

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Clarence Day

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

Lafcadio Hearn

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

Matthew Rhys

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Stephen King

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Ray Kroc