Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Stephen King

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Charlie Brooker

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Laurence Sterne

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simone Weil

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Brian Eno

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason; and if any thing is to be hoped, every thing ought to be tried.

James Madison

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

William Hague

I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.

Kim Zmeskal

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

Jennifer Aniston

Such as we are made of, such we be.

William Shakespeare

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

Shimon Peres

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Madonna Ciccone