How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

I have lived some thirty odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

Sandra Lee

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

Cassandra Clare

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Roger Stone

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Roger Ebert

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Jodi Picoult

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

Amy Grant

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without a licence; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.

Charles Dickens

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Anon.

I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

Kristin Chenoweth