I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.

Jeff Dunham

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

Bernard Leach

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true.

Robert Penn Warren

Fear is always a good motivator.

James Dyson

If a thousand were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

The late Bill Nye once said I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Jackson Browne

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Frank Lane

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

Trent Reznor

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

Travis Berketa