We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

It's great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often, as we are very close.

An 'exchange' would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options - just like federal employees and Congress do right now - and allow their employer to help pay for it.

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons - for the history of the club, the league, the fans, and the coach because he is one of the best in the world.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself.

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.