Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.

Cassandra Clare

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

James Allen

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

E. Stanley Jones

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

Source Unknown

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Lucy Lawless

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

Thomas Carlyle

Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

Arthur Kroker

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

Victor Ortiz

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde