Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

George Carey

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Gilda Radner

Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death.

Terry Pratchett

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Mary Schmich

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Fernand Leger

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

Josh McDowell

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Melissa Rosenberg

Imagination needs to be fed.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner