Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

Frances O'Grady

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Harold Pinter

Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.

Emily Procter

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

Neil Gaiman

Trzymajcie si? z dala od cz?owieka, który pracowa? w pocie czo?a nad rozwi?zaniem jakiej? zagadki, rozwi?za? j? i stwierdzi?, ?e nie jest m?drzejszy ni? przedtem - powiada Bokonon. - Przepe?nia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do ludzi, którzy s? równie g?upi jak on, ale nie doszli do swojej g?upoty równie ci??k? prac?.

Kurt Vonnegut

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

Ruth Gordon

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Bergen Evans

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

William Gurnall

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

J. J. Abrams

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky