Albert Einstein Quotes
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
Quotes to Explore
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I used to think, if I could realise I'd dieThen I would be a lot nicerUsed to believe in a lot moreNow I just see straight aheadThat's not to say I don't have good timesBut as for my days, I spend them waiting...
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Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.
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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
