The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Frances Wright

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Bruce Sterling

There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open.

Nike Corporation

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Edmond About

A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.

Albert Camus

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Henry Miller

Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.''You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.''Before which Dorian? The one who is pouring out tea for us, or the one in the picture?''Before either.''I should like to come to the theatre with you, Lord Henry,' said the lad.'Then you shall come; and you will come, too, Basil, won't you?''I can't, really. I would sooner not. I have a lot of work to do.''Well, then you and I will go alone, Mr. Gray.''I should like that awfully.'The painter bit his lip and walked over, cup in hand, to the picture. 'I shall stay with the real Dorian,' he said, sadly.

Oscar Wilde

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

Jeff Bezos

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

Boyd Rice