Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Barack Obama

I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.

Nelson Demille

Law, without force, is impotent.

Blaise Pascal

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.

Rodney Dangerfield

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Thomas Paine

All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.

Ada Limon

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Mo Yan

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

Ralph Chaplin

The best movies are simple.

Shia LaBeouf

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

James Dean

I'm tired of being crushed by the weight of men that believe in nothing, I have to change that.

Jackson Teller Sons of Anarchy