Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

No sheep may leave the flock, " he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Leadership is a conversation.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.