I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt

There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe.

Mercedes Lackey

Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--''I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict.Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. 'Ankh-Morpork is a city', he recovered.

Terry Pratchett

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

Kiana Tom

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

Mahatma Gandhi

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehman

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare....

Japanese Proverb

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

B. K. Sandwell

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

Eva Mendes