American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

Caroline Bird

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

Leo Tolstoy

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Rick James

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Andrew Mason

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf

Beware of the person of one book.

Thomas Aquinas

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

William Taylor Copeland

I went to court for a parking ticket. I pleaded insanity. Isaid, Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park inthe passing lane?

Steven Wright

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender

Novala Takemoto

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Cassandra Clare