Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

William Cartwright

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Kate Clinton

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

Anzia Yezierska

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

Orlando Bloom

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Jesus Christ

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Terry Pratchett

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Ernest Hemingway

Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.

V.S. Carnes

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

Toba Beta