Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

Jane Austen

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Ben Elton

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Rob Brydon

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

Paulo Coelho

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jeremy Schwartz

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.

Adriana Lima

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Tahereh Mafi

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Todd Barry

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

G. W. F. Hegel

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

Joan Rivers

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Martin Tupper