A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

Jenson Button

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

Blaise Pascal

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Stephen King

Today is a king in disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

Leighton Meester

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks, and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ...

Anne Sexton, There You Were

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

Steven Wright

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning.

James Joyce

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Doug Larson

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Denis Diderot