I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they did was persist

Thomas Pynchon

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

John Green

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Rachel Field

It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.

Source Unknown

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

Bill Gaede

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Michael Sheen

Marriage is like a formality for me.

David Copperfield

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Kenneth Burke

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

Amber Heard

I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy, Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? He said, I don't know. I said, I don't want your job.

Steven Wright

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny the Elder

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

Ryan Reynolds