You must be a prophet right enough, said Alvin Junior, cause I can't understand a thing you said.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Edwin Way Teale

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Fanny Brice

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Christopher Hampton

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Henry Villard

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Casey Stengel

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion

Bertrand Russell

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

Danish proverb

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

J.K. Rowling