The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

Kate Moss

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Miranda Otto

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

Mark Twain

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Meister Eckhart

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

John Morley

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

James Mackintosh

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Harmony Korine

There are definitely people I respect and I love their music, but there was never really an artist that I said, I want to be just like them, I love the way their career is going. I love their music. It wasn't really like that. I wanted to be like myself.

Hilary Duff

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Ishmael Reed

No, no! said the Queen. Sentence first - verdict afterwards.

Lewis Carroll

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Bill Frist