At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Emmitt Smith

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Enid Bagnold

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Charles Dickens

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.

Elbert Hubbard

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

Dakota Fanning

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Cyril Connolly

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Neil Gaiman

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Jason Newsted

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

John Randolph

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld