A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

Jon Fosse

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

Robert Browning

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Lewis Carroll

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

George Eliot

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

Belinda Jeffrey

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Jeff Goodell

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.

Anonymous

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

Idris Elba