All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt. ' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.
Lookin' back is a bad habit.
I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.
Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs,. . . Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1. 30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.