One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

So many other planets

David Self

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Aldous Huxley

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Bobby Hull

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

Jacques Pepin

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw

I urge you all today, especially today in these times of terrorism and chaos to love yourselves without reservation and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather; then by all means, use restraints.

Margaret Cho

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Doug Coupland

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Robert Engman

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

Barbara Kingsolver

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

Charles Dickens