The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Nancy BanksSmith

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Elijah Wood

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

Tadao Ando

How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!

Henry Wotton

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Chris Martin

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

Rory McIlroy

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Naima Adedapo

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

William Ralph Inge

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Douglas Adams

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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