There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

Jodi Picoult

Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

Dorothy Deming

Though I love sarees and feel a woman looks most beautiful in a saree, my personal style statement is casual because I am more tomboyish.

Disha Patani

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Anna Quindlen

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

John Bolton

Do not mistake consequence for fate.

Kirstin Brown

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

Charles Dickens

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

C.S. Lewis

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Brian Eno

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Sylvia Plath

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

J.K. Rowling