"I was the first MP to table a motion condemning apartheid in South Africa. When I first met Nelson Mandela he was a terrorist, when I next s…"

— Tony Benn

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."

— George W. Bush

"I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected."

— Wolfgang Pauli

"You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement."

— Edgar Degas

"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, …"

— Thomas Mann