Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.

Deborah Brodie

The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

G. K. Chesterton

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.

Peter C. Newman

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Francis Bacon

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.

NeNe Leakes

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Joe Jamail

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Agatha Christie

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

David Rockefeller