Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Jonathan Swift

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Amy Winehouse

The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.

Cassandra Clare

I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

Steve Jobs

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

Paul Gascoigne

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Wayne Dyer

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Cher

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

Source Unknown

It's fun being a kid.

Bradford Arthur Angier

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Issac Newt