I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

John Henry Newman

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Toba Beta

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

George Orwell

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Terry Pratchett

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Harmon Killebrew

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

Toni Morrison

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Stephen Bayley

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Edgar R. Fiedler

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Russell Brand