Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.

That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.