To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Thomas Fuller

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel

What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

Christopher Hitchens

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Edgar Degas

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Sue Grafton

All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

J. A. Spender

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bede Griffiths

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract

Benjamin Franklin

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle