Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it

James Gibbons Huneker

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

Rick Santorum

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

June Singer

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

George Osborne

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

Adam Sandler

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Kenneth Clark

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Joseph Addison

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

Bill Condon

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

Neil Gaiman