I've worked with a band and it's nice to have someone to travel around with but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Your lost friends are not dead but gone before advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price it will tend if it's successful to rise above a critical mass a penetration.

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb because it is through us - through our brains our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut '19' was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher or at least update the rules.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.