Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.
Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.
Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.
Out of routine comes inspiration.
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?