Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now let alone any more is well known.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars who in the known alone would shrivel up with boredom.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman J. K. Rowling Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Although it is generally known I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics and come back in 2016 I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Elizabeth Peyton the artist known for tiny dazzling portraits of radiant youth is now painting tiny dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.