The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Samuel Butler

Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are.

Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severi

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Kong Fu Zi

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Curtis Judalet

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Miranda Lambert

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

Amber Tamblyn

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

Robert James Waller

Punctuality is the thief of time

Oscar Wilde

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Albert Camus

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Reggie Watts

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor