In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.

Kahlil Gibran

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Bjork

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

Jennifer Ellison

Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.

Jonathan Franzen

Reduce the fiction and you

Scott Sorrell

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Ronald Reagan

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Jack Kerouac

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Source Unknown

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Eden Phillpotts

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Stephen Hawking

All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.

Paulo Coelho