Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

My personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections.

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

Surgeons must be very careful when they take the knife Underneath their fine incisions. Stirs the Culprit Life

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty remember understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.