Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Constantin Brancusi

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

James M. Baldwin

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

Vijali Hamilton

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

Terry Pratchett

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Pete Townshend

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Peter Bogdanovich

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

James Dyson