Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'

I have no favors to pay back.

You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

Thanksgiving man. Not a good day to be my pants.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

When people use your brand name as a verb that is remarkable.