As Bob Dole found out you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge visionary poetry in it.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10 000 people.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

We can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it into peace.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting the 1960's and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Nature's great masterpiece an elephant the only harmless great thing.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I have one piece of music since 1997 and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy it might make you sad but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

A movie goes from several stages from idea to script. As you continue shooting you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

I think that a song when it works never mind a piece of long form music even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own ideally.