Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Ridley Scott

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Mark Twain

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Bob Dylan

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Gustav Stickley

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

David Grayson

O brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper--and sleep too--than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgin slumbers.

Andrew A. Bonar

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

Italo Calvino

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

Darrell Royal

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building

Oscar Wilde

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

John Calvin

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Mike Gordon