The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat shore; How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more.

Frederick William Faber

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Virginia Woolf

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward George BulwerLytton, (spe

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Tom Stoppard

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Curtis LeMay

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Aron Ralston

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Albert Camus

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are

Blaise Pascal

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey