Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.
I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
