I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.

William Shakespeare

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

William Mcilvanney

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Karl Marx

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

James Keir Hardie

Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.

David Lynch

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

Billie Piper

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Walter Isaacson

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Kathy Ireland

You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.

Dawn Steel

Complete honesty has nothing to do with purity or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

Clement Greenberg

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

W. Somerset Maugham