Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

Ouida

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Simón Bolívar

Art must take reality by surprise.

Francoise Sagan

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

Albert Einstein

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Stephen King

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Dale Patridge

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Sean Connery

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

J. August Strindberg

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Laura Kreitzer

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein, from Time En