The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Jello Biafra

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Jean Rostand

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Cynthia McKinney

For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.

Virginia Woolf

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

William Shakespeare

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

James J. Corbett

Well, dinner would have been splendid

Sir Winston Churchill

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne