Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Emile M. Cioran

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Jesus Christ

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

George Washington

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Simone Weil

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

Steven Moffat

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Lionel Trilling

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

Bob Woodward

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Earl Wilson

To give requires good sense.

Ovid

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

Joe Nichols

The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.

Blaise Pascal

Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.

Phillip Phillips