And Quotes

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time.

Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

On doing what you want to do.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

In that - and that is my personal view - Singapore delivers the most value, as they think about Formula One as a complete entertainment event, on and off track.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!