I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: . . . . . . . . .

J.K. Rowling

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

Dianna Agron

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Keith Ablow

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Raymond Chandler

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

Golda Meir

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Peter Abelard

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Herbert Simon