Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

Guru Nanak

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Judy Holliday

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

James Tobin

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

Bryan Waller Proctor

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Mae West

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Havelock Ellis

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Jim Rohn

But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar. Magnus Bane

Cassandra Clare

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Neil LaBute

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote