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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Written by Benjamin Disraeli
I see myself as having three families: my birth family, the family that raised me, and my Cree family, who I was reunited with in my late teens, so I consider myself to be lucky.
Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie
I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
Written by Nancy Reagan
I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.
Written by Vanessa Redgrave
I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'
Written by Alison Moyet
I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
Written by Naomie Harris
I want to please every woman, every time.
Written by Stuart Rose
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
Written by Peter Medawar
To err is human, to purr feline.
Written by Robert Byrne
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm a Virgo, so I'm a super hard lover. I fall in love so quickly!
Written by Justine Skye
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Written by Lucretius
I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.
Written by Lucy Dacus
I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
Written by Omar Sy
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
Written by Joel Coen
To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.
Written by Anna Wintour
Dreams grow holy put in action.
Written by Adelaide Anne Procter
The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave our bodies. I would be that kind of psychologist who says, 'You're absolutely right - there are monsters under the bed.'
Written by Helen Oyeyemi
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
Written by Michelle Dockery
People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
Written by Tavi Gevinson
If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
Written by Roald Dahl
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.
Written by Chris Pavone
Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.
Written by David Caruso
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
Written by Ira Sachs
I like having young assistants in my office; they have energy, and I spend time with them to make sure they understand what we're doing. By investing in them, I'm investing in the magazine. All over 'Vogue,' 'Teen Vogue,' and 'Men's Vogue,' there are people who have been through not only my office but also many other offices at 'Vogue.'
Written by Anna Wintour
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
Written by Mark Steyn
I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
Written by Rick Pitino
Violent anger makes me physically ill.
Written by Langston Hughes
There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.
Written by Yoon Ahn
I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors are amazing, and they are my favourite actors by far.
Written by Sophie Turner

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