When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

Charles Lamb

For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Oscar Wilde

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

George Sheehan

The dice of God are always loaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I need to work to support my family.

Tori Spelling

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Alfred E. Smith

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Mary Schmich

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Oliver Goldsmith

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Alexander Blok