Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

George Orwell

...why did we wait for any thing?--why not seize the pleasure at once?--How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

John Green

God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Pat Robertson

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Joel Hodgson

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Ralph Nader

Everything that happened last year stays in the past.

Asdrubal Cabrera

Those who own much have much to fear.

Rabindranath Tagore

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Doug Coupland

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.

Desmond Morris

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Jim Rohn

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult