To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

William Hodding Carter, Jr.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

Always be yourself, there's no one better!

Selena Gomez

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

J.K. Rowling

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Donald Downes

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Dickens

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Karl Marx

Father...knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.

Bill Cosby

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Paula Abdul

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith