At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-in lining for colder climes. The belt, which comes standard, should never be buckled but must be casually knotted at the waist.
Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
