Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.