We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever

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

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Andre Norton

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It

Anthony Burgess

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Kristina McMorris

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Mike Myers

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Robert Frost

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Jason Lee

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Pam Houston