"If I could have done anything more, it would have been less"

-- Artie Shaw

“I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.”
“Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.”
“To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.”
“What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.”
“By and large my relations with the US were good.”

Source : "Report: Blix Says 'Bastards' in Washington Tried to Undermine Him". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2003.
“My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.”
“Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me”

Source : Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)
“In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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