Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Kate Adie

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Gordon Ramsay

The ways we miss our lives are life.

Randall Jarrell

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

William Penn

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

Arthur Koestler

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph J. Cudworth

Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.

Judy Baer

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni

I called the Census Bureau to see why they hadn't sent me aform, and they said that I was too nondescript to influence thedemographics one way or another.

Steven Wright

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

English Proverb

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Sophie Swetchine