"I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists."

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.”

“The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.”

“I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.”

“Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of harmful practices and devices resulting often in physical injury to the wife and demoralization to both parties. Some have wondered if the Church would approve such practices. Of course it never has and never could.”

“Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott (1834). “Elliott's Poems: The village patriarch, Love, and other poems”, p.284

“Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.”

“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.”

Source : "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.

“There's no getting blood out of a turnip.”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13