I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.
I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
