Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Dictionaries are like watches the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

The arts quite simply nourish the soul. They sustain comfort inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart Beethoven Brahms and so on - I always feel quite misguidedly that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was nothing ever ran quite straight which no doubt was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

I film quite a bit of footage then edit. Changes before your eyes things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from and how they're made they never seem quite as sacred again.

In fact in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome too to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest quite content.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Art never improves but... the material of art is never quite the same.

All art is quite useless.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I'm not angry I'm not an angry person but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am and sometimes it works quite well.

I'm generally quite an angry person and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time anger at what we can't do fear or even disgust at growing old.