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It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing [on Shane Warne]
Arjuna Ranatunga

Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach--fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak.
Bret Harte

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land
Jack London

He is not just any old Tory MP - he is the architect of the Tory tax and spending plans over the last two years [on unheard of and unknown sacked Tory MP, Howard Flight]
John Reid

I am really looking forward to the next two years. [after signing a very lucrative golden handcuffs TV deal!]
Robson Green

He really is the big, bad wolf, isn't he? Even the three pigs and their brick house would have been blown down with his huffing and puffing! [on Shane Warne]
Jonathan Agnew

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
Alan Gorrie

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed
Anonymous

He's such a warm person. He was immediately warm to me, and it invited a good energy. [on John Travolta]
Scarlett Johansson

'Give me a handful of Westpoint Graduates and I'll win the battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win the war.'
General George Patten

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin

The biggest story of 1982 was the Falklands war. The second biggest also involved my mother and me.
Mark Thatcher

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

Amazing, this is absolutely amazing - the year I have had has been amazing [on Sports personality award]
Zara Phillips

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Norman Augustine

Ours is like Jewish humour with a sun tan - warm, family-based. We share a lot of neuroses such as food, guilt, overachieving children and controlling mothers. [on Asian humour]
Meera Syal

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
Samuel Butler

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
Michael Diamond

The first thing I saw was 'A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away'. Anybody who knows me knows my life changed at that moment [on seeing Star Wars]
John Singleton

This is my 48th award this year. Apparently when I reach 50 I can trade them in for a kettle
Robbie Williams

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short

I would never speak to him again after what he did to me. After all the stuff he said about me on Howard Stern? That guy is a joke.
Paris Hilton

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E M Forster

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality
Clifton Fadiman

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
Kevin Spacey

On George Lucas from Starwars: Underneath that cool exterior of his, George is rocking.
Geri Halliwell

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
Ogden Nash

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Sir Walter Scott

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Chuang Tzu

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here (Of American troops in Britain during World War II)
Tommy Trinder

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror.
George Carlin

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
Conan O'Brien

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Henry Ward Beecher

I am looking forward to my next game in a way that I have not looked forward to rugby in my life before!
Jonny Wilkinson

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy
Nick Nolte

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E M Forster

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

( on prospect of Conservative re-election )
Neil Kinnock

It is easy to play Jazz OK, but very hard to play it well - the amount of improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to learn to play.
Ahmad Jamal

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin



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