And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Jeanette Winterson

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

John Bunyan

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Burt Lancaster

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

Adam Carolla

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Marcus V. Pollio

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

When you don't have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If everything is simple, then you're frightened of death.

J. P. Donleavy

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Elias Canetti

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw