You know me, Esme. I couldn't subtract a fart from a plate of beans.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

E. M. Forster

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Francis Parker Yockey

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.

Ana Ortiz

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Fran Lebowitz

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly

Bertrand Russell

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

Jim Carrey

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

Proverb

And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.

Jane Austen, Emma, ch. 5

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Marc Andreessen

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

Oscar Wilde, from Intentions

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!(spoken by character Garcin) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/sart.html

JeanPaul Sartre, No Exit, 1945