From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.