Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Your darkest enemy is the one who bows you down to the floor like a servant and wastes half your life in meaningless rituals. This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.

Orson Scott Card

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Oscar Wilde

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

Rita Rudner

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Steve Bartkowski

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Abdul Kalam

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Iain Sinclair

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

Nicholas Sparks

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Anne Wilson Schaef

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry Kissinger

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.

Timothy Griffin