There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

John Mayer

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Ed Miliband

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Gabriel Heatter

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed

Ann Landers

A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Eddie Vedder

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Chris Evert

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

John Muir

True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.

Amy Davis

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Frantz Fanon