The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Amar Gopal Bose

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Remy de Gourmont

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Orson Welles

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Elon Musk

Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.

Stephen Richards

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

Dena Tyson

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Anne Rice

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

Milla Jovovich

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Cher

....it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

Mark Twain

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo