I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

John Green

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Jodi Picoult

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Johann von Goethe

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

Ricki Lake

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

William Shakespeare

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

Victoria Wood

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Isabel Allende

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Willie Nelson

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson