Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

J. K. Rowling

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

Ray Stannard Baker

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

George Bernard Shaw

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Denis Diderot

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

Carly Fiorina

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Jason Aldean

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Albert Einstein

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Joseph Sugarman

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

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I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Ricky Schroder