I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Jo Nesbo

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

John Sexton

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father. Matthew 18:10

Bible

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

John Sweeney

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

Hans Frank

The truth is that, from the immense spectacle of the world, each novelists retains the one adventure which enable shim to give expression to his own essential self, just as the painter sees in nature only pictures painted in his manner.

Andre Maurois

Please don't take my wings...

Randall Wallace

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.

Silvia Hartmann

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Adlai Stevenson