It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

Charles Dickens

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Samuel Butler

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

Eric Stoltz

The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.

Richard Drew

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Barbra Streisand

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Sade Adu

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

Cassandra Clare

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

Cassandra Clare

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.

Solange nicole

There is in stillness oft a magic powerTo calm the breast when struggling passions lower,Touched by its influence, in the soul ariseDiviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

John Henry Newman