In politics the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Limited in his nature infinite in his desire man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman I'm called a bigot.

Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.