People are islands, ' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

While they proceedTo and fro, andCome and go Like Spring, SummerAutumn and WinterChastise, Criticize And SlanderJesus still remainsA Wonder

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.

I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.