Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Friedrich von Schiller

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Judd Rose

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Steve Coogan

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Patty Berg, In The Golfer's Book

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Freddie Mercury

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Neil Gaiman

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Cameron Diaz

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

William Morris

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

William Hazlitt