He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.

Paulina Christensen

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

Slash

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

William Golding

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jan Zamoiski

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

Primo Levi

The Germans really conceive of their country as always under war conditions in this respect. No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth and, to the German mind, they are always belligerent. The Germans take the view that war is only intensified peace.

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Gillian Anderson

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Plato

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Frank Moore Colby