Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugl

Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd all be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-above-board way known as 'doing business'.

Terry Pratchett

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Scott Adams

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

Jerry Doyle

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

Lucy Stone, As quoted in The Lif

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Carroll O'Connor

Emptiness gnawed at Emma. Could

Julie Klassen

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Joe Slovo

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

William Shakespeare