Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Etty Hillesum

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Terry Pratchett

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Laurence J. Peter

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

Jane Austen

If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.

Toby Jones

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.

Emma Forrest

God tells every religion that it is His favorite.

Michael Lipsey

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Christopher Hitchens

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

Steve Wynn

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

Lauren Oliver

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Cassandra Clare

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Jodie Foster