It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Kinky Friedman

A full 'definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.

Vladimir Lenin

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Remy de Gourmont

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Doris Lessing

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Susan Rice

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Jane Austen

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

J.K. Rowling

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.

Krisi Keley

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Barry Cornwall

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner