I have to struggle to change peoples perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that Im this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when Im absolutely not like that at all. I think Im much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. – Helena Bonham Carter

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat. – Billie Joe Armstrong

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. – John Boyd Orr