It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Benjamin Netanyahu

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Terry Eagleton

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

Jordin Sparks

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Paul Feig

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Tennyson

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Cassandra Clare

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Geraldine Brooks

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Hubert Humphrey