Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Joe Biden

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John LeCarre

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Julie Burchill

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Neil Gaiman

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Audrey Hepburn

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson McCullers

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Michel Houellebecq