Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Groucho Marx

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Glenn Howerton

I like humor.

David Yates

Origami helps in the study of mathematics and science in many ways.... Using origami anyone can become a scientific experimenter with no fuss.

Martin David Kruskal

How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! -- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends -- those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that!

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Kim Cattrall

Ihr seid gut, wenn ihr eins mit euch seid.

Kahlil Gibran

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Henry David Thoreau

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey