People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warner

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Eric Allin Cornell

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

Diana Gabaldon

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

Steve Maraboli

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Frank Herbert

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.

Thomas Taylor

You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.

Kirsten Hubbard

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.

Laura Riding

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

Thomas Jefferson

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew