Lord Henry Wotton: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

Esther Williams

Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked?Jace: I was following you.Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?

Cassandra Clare

Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.

Edmund Rouse

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Studs Terkel

I can not live with out books.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

C.S. Lewis

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Anton Chekhov

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Paul Goodman

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

Ken Thompson

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Jennifer Aniston