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

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

J. C. Watts

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Gerard Depardieu

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Pa

A mediocre idea that guarantees enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan

George Orwell

There was a beautiful time...

Sylvia Plath

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Sydney Smith

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Rob Glaser

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

Rae Hachton

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Paul Harris