Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

Paulo Coelho

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR.

Mark Twain

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

Beth Ditto

A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Dorothy Parker

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Oprah Winfrey

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Joseph Barbera

You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Gail Simmons

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Mitch Hedberg

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

Melanie Laurent

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving