The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,With loads of learned lumber in his head,With his own tongue still edifies his ears,And always list'ning to himself appears.All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

George J. Mitchell

I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Jose Marti

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Richard Ney

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Leon Kass

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Vidal Sassoon

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Benjamin Disraeli

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Alanis Morissette

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot