Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Frank Carson

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Lincoln Steffens

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Bertrand Russell

Our sufferings will give us strength to help create a brave new world without needless sufferings.

Peter Lopez

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

Elizabeth Hurley

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Jacques Attali

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Rita Mae Brown

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.

Dorothy Parker

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Roddy Doyle

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck