[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Plato

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise

Martin Luther King Jr.

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

Bryant H. McGill

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

Vin Diesel

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.

T.F. Hodge

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

Neil Gaiman

I dwell in PossibilityA fairer House than ProseMore numerous of WindowsSuperior--for DoorsOf Chambers as the CedarsImpregnable of EyeAnd for an Everlasting RoofThe Gambrels of the SkyOf Visitors--the fairestFor Occupation--ThisThe spreading wide my narrow HandsTo gather Paradise

Emily Dickinson, I dwell in poss

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Ernie Harwell