My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
Joan RiversJoin the club
[to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Machester City a European place]
Stuart PearceAnti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
Denis MacShaneIn our rampantly secular world, biography is now the only form of life after death
David CannadineThe time is right for more good companies to get on board and if that happens then snooker will be very big again, like it was in the 1980s.
Shaun MurphyEveryone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Chris RockIt is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold ToynbeeI want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
Young BuckWomen's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Angela CarterI would rather have won this race than be president of the United States [winning Olympic marathon in 1904]
Thomas HicksEverything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus AureliusI'm still struggling to deal with what I actually did wrong. To be perfectly honest, he's arrogant, and he lost the match today and he's looking for every excuse in the book. He's a sore loser. [on playing Coria in the Davis Cup]
Lleyton HewittAlthough we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
Richard BurrWhenever I saw Wally Hammond batting, I felt sorry for the ball.
Len HuttonYou can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.
Britney SpearsI am not a miracle worker, but I have done things of this nature before. It's 95 per cent down to the team and the players themselves to win. There is a five per cent gap that the fans can close to bring success.
Uri GellerI don't think they [England] can win but if they start the series well, they can give us a good run for our money.
Mark WaughA car rarely turns my head these days.
Brooke BurkeIf you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
Dana DelanyI think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
Julia RobertsThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren KierkegaardThe foremost thought I have, is, that I'm now a mother.
Danielle CormackI personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?
Michael MooreMy philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.
Monty PythonA leader faces the music even when they don't like the tune.
AnonymousIt would bother me to lose a title, but business is business and I want the biggest fights and the most money.
Joe CalzagheFaced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
GalbraithSuccess in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napoleon HillThe market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail GorbachevThe chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air, That
Time's hoary wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
Francis ThompsonBuild a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry PratchettDiscipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim RohnBy the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
Kenneth BakerI've seen my Dad's face in Wallace when I'm animating him. I'm just gently manipulating his brow or something and I find that I'm looking at my father.
Nick ParkThe heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone
Reginald HeberThe work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
Samuel SmilesI hear Peter Ebdon swims a mile every day. That means that in a year he could be 365 miles away. That is the best that we can hope for after this. If this was a boxing match it would have been stopped on Sunday night to spare the fans any more punishment
Barry HearnBeauty and grace command the world.
Park BenjaminThe more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian TracyThe most exhausting thing in life is being insincere
Anne Morrow LindberghAchieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn RandWe tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. [on his and brothers directing prowess and topics of movies]
Ethan CoenLife is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold NiebuhrAll that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature.
Vera BrittainMost of us work all day, but the Spanish have a siesta - clever them, stupid us!
AnonymousI make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born
George GallowayAlfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre CurieWishing of all employments is the worst.
Edward YoungHe who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoI played it endlessly [walking back to happiness] - it was like the first kiss, the beginning of a love affair with pop music that continues to the present day.
Mick Brown
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