It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one.

Christopher Hitchens

The richness of the human journey is here. Listen. Pass it on. So that there will not pass from our future the enchantment that begins with the honored words, Once upon a time, long ago and far away, in a deep forest, there lived a child - much like you.

Anon.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Joan Chen

There once was a sculptor called PhidiasWho had a distaste for the hideous.So he sculpt AphroditeWithout any nightieWhich shocked the ultra-fastidious.

Anon.

There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away.

Terry Pratchett

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

Source Unknown

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Jerry Saltz

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Maureen O'Hara

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Harold Ramis

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Jean Baudrillard

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters