Gertrude Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.