Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

David Smith

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Lea Seydoux

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

Two things greater Than all things are; And the first is love And the second is war.

Arthur Desmond

I knew a girl that was so ugly that... She has a face like a saintA saint Bernard!

Rodney Dangerfield

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

David Hume

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Paul De Man

There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away.

Terry Pratchett

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Ella Maillart