Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

Robertson Davies

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

William Shakespeare

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?

J.K. Rowling

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

Jon Stewart

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Charles B. Rouss

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

Michael Hermanto

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Erich Maria Remarque

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

C. L. R. James