Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.
I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.
I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture - Tient par un clou dur.)
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
Love every moment as if every moment is most beautiful. Welcome every event as if every event is so meaningful.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.
