My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

Victoria Principal

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

Cassandra Clare

Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Wavy Gravy

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardlyvisible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

Celia Thaxter

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Criss Jami

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Saskya Pandita

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

Peter Mullan