Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

Usain Bolt

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Dorff

You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Jerry Saltz

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics o

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Bruce Springsteen

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

Jane Smiley

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Jean Paul Richter

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Richard Branson