A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Portia de Rossi

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

George Steiner

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Maureen O'Hara

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Art Spiegelman

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

Will Durant

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story

Max Ehrman

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Mark Twain

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

Mario Lemieux

Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses

Matthew Goldfinger

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

Anon.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Oscar Wilde