I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Andrea Dworkin

His (Cardinal ) own opinion was his law

William Shakespeare

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

George Eliot

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

Henry David Thoreau

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Jodi Picoult

The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qu'ran is mute. If you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth

Conor Oberst

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Erykah Badu

To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries- this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.

Albert Camus