Even before he came to power in 1997 Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big big change. It confused people: they said 'Things don't look like that!'

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that not degraded.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

In this business until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character which gives this simple life where all art is unknown something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.