Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Laura Marling

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Joe E. Lewis

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Macy Gray

Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.

Charles Dickens

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Patsy Cline

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Ivan Turgenev

I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.

Ashley Greene

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Sir Winston Churchill

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Gerald R. Ford

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Amy Carmichael

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.

Silvia Hartmann