If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

J.K. Rowling

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Julie Walters

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Thomas Carlyle

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Melissa Marr

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

Marshall McLuhan

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

Pema Chodron, The Places That Sc

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Roger Ebert

And in his eyes she read a love such as she had never known.

Gustave Flaubert

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

William Manchester

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy