I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Oscar Wilde

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Jerry Lee Lewis

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

Benjamin Franklin

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Herbie Hancock

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.

C.S. Lewis

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

Toba Beta

Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.

Cassandra Clare

Any girl that's got a 00,000 table and shoes, I'm in love with.

James Brolin

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Benjamin Haydon

When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.

Cassandra Clare