My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

Kristin Scott Thomas

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Though I love sarees and feel a woman looks most beautiful in a saree, my personal style statement is casual because I am more tomboyish.

Disha Patani

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Steven Wright

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

David Schwimmer

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Suzanne Vega

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

Nick Clegg

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Joshua Foer

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therfore one seldom does it at all.

Lord Chesterfield