For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

C. L. R. James

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Mark Boal

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Victor Hugo

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Shahrukh Khan

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Denis Waitley

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

Terry Pratchett

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Charles Schumer

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

Jane Austen

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie