I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Gillian Anderson

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

Neil Gaiman

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

Tony Campolo

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

William Shakespeare

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Mae West

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

Kerry King

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Joaquin Phoenix

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Gustave Flaubert

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.

Jon Meacham

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Jonathan Raban