Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Woody Allen

Silence implies consent.

Proverb

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,When two strong men stand face to face,tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of E

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

Larry David

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Ernest Hemingway

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

Robert Atkins

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Angelina Grimke

As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

Marshall McLuhan

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

Catherine Deneuve