Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I hadany firearms with me. I said, Well, what do you need?

Steven Wright

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Bill Bryson

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Thomas Huxley

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Timothy Spall

Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,Immortal, indestructible,shall suchSay, I have killed a man, or caused to kill?Nay, but as when one layethHis worn-out robes away,And, taking new ones, sayeth,These will I wear to-day!So putteth by the spiritLightly its garb of flesh,And passeth to inheritA residence afresh.

Bhagavad Gita

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.

General Robert E. Lee

I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Brett Favre

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson