There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense

Kin Hubbard

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

Virginia Woolf

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Wentworth Miller

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Jesus Christ

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

A. J. P. Taylor

You think intercourse is a private act it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Andrea Dworkin

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Clifford Geertz

A person who gossips

Timothy Pina

Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Spike Lee

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Maya Rudolph

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche