Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

That is her style of beauty.

George Orwell

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Paracelsus

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?

Jane Austen

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Ernest Bramah

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

David R. Ellis

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Karl Kraus

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Plato

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Edward F. Halifax

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes Laërtius

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

Erin Morgenstern

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Keith Thibodeaux