I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Theodore Bikel

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Diane Glancy

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

It's always well to be the smartest thinker, but is won't get you very far unless you're the plainest talker.

Source Unknown

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

Germaine Greer

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.

Jane Austen

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

Karl Lagerfeld

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Johann von Goethe