Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Doris Lessing

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan P. Smith

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Lady Gaga

Who loses a day loses life

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Terry Pratchett

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

Lena Dunham

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

Gwen Stefani

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Edward Young

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Eminem