Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you’ve known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night’s sleep?

Walter F. Mondale

Being Family Fishing Friends Hunting Life Night Sleep Want

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

Pim Fortuyn

I don’t see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don’t believe in an eye for an eye. I don’t believe this is truly freedom.

Sandra Cisneros

Eye Freedom Power

I’ve had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I’ve had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.

Prince William

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Philip Kearny

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

Ibrahim Rugova

Countries Europe Today

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness Woman

When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn’t anything – I didn’t do anything or I didn’t feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.

Mark Messier

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Saddam Hussein

There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Alan Clark

Execution Nothing Party

I’d like to get back into journalism. I’m hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

Jeff Gannon

Job Journalism News Time Will

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles R. Swindoll

Appearance Attitude Circumstances Education Money Past People Skill

I think I’ll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

Just Fontaine

The first eight songs we were using someone else’s monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can’t hear those who you are jamming with.

John Entwistle

I’ve never seen myself as a fantasy writer – ever.

Jonathan Carroll

If we still advise we shall never do.

Elizabeth I

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radner

Creativity Life Spirit Tragedy Uniqueness

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there’s only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Mel Gibson

Character Christ Drama Passion People

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it’s hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Dee Dee Ramone

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Robert Mayer

Back then, it was more or less we couldn’t change a line in our script. We weren’t allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won’t do parts. It’s very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.

Donna Douglas

Actors Change Today

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

William Cavendish

May Nature Work

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Jim Rogers

What I wanted to hear didn’t exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Richard Thompson

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Rita Coolidge

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A day may sink or save a realm.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you’re one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

Marc Maron

Moments People Talking

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Lillian Hellman

Act Confidence Right

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ruby Wax

A lot of people only see me as villains.

Terence Stamp

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I’d always be saying ‘No, less, less’.

Peter Berg

We need to respond to the mood of the people – that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

Joe Slovo

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

Buffalo Bill

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

Experience Love Pretty Sex

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Tea Water Woman

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

James Weldon Johnson

Beauty Earth London Paris Thought

Nothing is wasted.

Edward V. Lucas

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Knowledge Public

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.

Lindy Boggs

Assassination President Talk

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today Tomorrow Will

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer

Innocence Power

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Joe Baca

Adolescence Education School

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Jim Hodges

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Alice Foote MacDougall

May Success Whim

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Anne Tyler

Superstition Writing

I want paint to work as flesh.

Lucian Freud

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world’s people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Kofi Annan

First Nations People United Will World

English music is white – it evades everything.

Edward Elgar

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Bette Davis