Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.

The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

William Blake

Let me listen to myself and not to them.

Gertrude Stein

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Marilyn Monroe

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Tori Spelling

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

James Laughlin

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

B. C. Forbes

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Joseph Conrad

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

James Dean

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

David Ginola

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers

Jean Baudrillard