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The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

I'm anti - the pussy generation. Not to be confused with pussy.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Hi my name is Brian, but uh, you can call me 'B-Rok'. Cuz, I be rockin' your house!

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.