I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for? dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

Andrea Gibson

Leila dreamt that her Soul was on fire. It was not a nightmare. Shannon was in the dream. Shannon was telling her to wake up. She woke up, burning as if she had a fever, nearly soaking wet with sweat. Kevin was asleep beside her.

H. Raven Rose

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Ron Rash

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewing

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Neil Simon

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Victor Hugo

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

Ulrich Beck

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Stephen King

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Marcus Aurelius

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Garrett Hardin

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

Donald Bullock