God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

Jodi Picoult

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Condon

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

You stole a boat, she snapped. What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?

Cassandra Clare

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom is such a gift.

Ryan Gosling

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Malcolm Fraser

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Margaret Halsey