The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

Vince Cable

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.

Frank Zappa

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Ian Botham

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Richard Whately

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

James Cameron

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Jane Austen

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios.

C.S. Lewis

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to see the world and construe it in the right way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.

Sidney Jourard

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Sir John Mortimer