My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Thomas Jefferson

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Malorie Blackman

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Brendan Behan

Marriage changes everything.

Marilyn Manson

I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

John Donne

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

A.E. Housman

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Neil Gaiman

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Henry S. Haskins