Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Kent McCord

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

Idris Elba

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Alphonsus Liguori

Well, dinner would have been splendid

Sir Winston Churchill

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Lucille Ball

Live for the lovers, not the haters!

Scylar Tyberius

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Paul Auster

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

George Smathers

I actually think happiness is the absence of suffering. It comes from peace. That comes from being careful about desire, judgment, and reaction.

Naval Ravikant

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw