I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Ever notice how irons have a setting for *permanent* press? Idon't get it...

Steven Wright

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right....

Henry Ford

The true science and study of man is man.

Pierre Charron

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Irvine Welsh

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Jodi Picoult

Beauty is always the result of an accident. Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired. It baffles and disgusts. It may even horrify. Once the new habit has been acquired, the accident ceases to be an accident. It becomes classical and loses its shock value.

Jean Cocteau

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

Proverb

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Aristotle

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope