I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

Terry Eagleton

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

Justin Trudeau

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Richard Dawkins

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

Gina Gershon

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

Gary Sheffield

I like being the girl nobody can have.

Miley Cyrus

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Gabriel Peri