The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

John Geddes

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Henry Ward Beecher

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Russell Page

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

Ruth Gordon

Better know nothing than half-know many things

Friedrich Nietzsche

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

Chief Joseph

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Douglas William Jerrold

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

Lawrence Wright

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Kenny Guinn

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.

Raymond Chandler

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx