It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge.

Will! Charlotte shouted over the noise. Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET!

Cassandra Clare

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Rex Stout

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Alan Brien

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Paulo Coelho

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

Edmond de Goncourt

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Mehmet Oz

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

Oscar Wilde

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Gunther Grass

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.

Joseph Addison

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Horace Walpole