I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Mae West

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

Ritchie Blackmore

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Michael J. Fox

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

Benjamin Franklin

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Catharine Beecher

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Sir Winston Churchill

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Andrew Motion

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay