There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

Rachel Bilson

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.

Christopher Marlowe

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Noam Chomsky

She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.

J.K. Rowling

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Jimmy Breslin

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Thomas Huxley

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Emeli Sande

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Salvador Dali

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

Elaine MacDonald