The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

Javier Bardem

Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

David Cronenberg

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Friedrich Nietzsche

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Martha Graham

I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.

Leo Tolstoy

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

Arabella Weir

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Ferdinand I

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams