To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Vera Farmiga

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

Edward R. Murrow

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the

I like humor.

David Yates

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living

Steven Morrissey

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

John Green

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk

Writing is the emotional morphine.

Mariam Maarouf

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Karl Lagerfeld

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

Andy Cohen