The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

she had no resources for solitude

Jane Austen

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Jonathan Raban

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

Mary Stuart Masterson

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Naguib Mahfouz

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Jean Paul

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Vic Braden

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Thomas Kempis

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Adam Weishaupt

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

The number of people who believe a thing has no bearing upon its truth.

Marie Sexton

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Marcelene Cox

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

J.K. Rowling