"Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is."

“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.”

“End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)”

“A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.”

Source : Simon Napier-Bell (2013). “I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China”, p.273, Random House

“People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.”

“Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.”

“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

“A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!”

“The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.”