We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

The world is no longer against us.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich world diseases. This is attractive science. Its science that people want to work on.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Your life isn't determined by your mistakes, but by your determination to keep going despite them.

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen.

I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

I don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.

I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.