One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

General George Patton

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What you see is what you see

Frank Stella

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Adam Clayton Powell

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Thomas Carlyle

His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John B. Gough

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Henry David Thoreau

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.

Ryne Sandberg

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?'

Alfred Hitchcock

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Bruce Barton

All stories are love stories.

Robert McLiam Wilson

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston