The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac Disraeli

I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it.

Claudio Reyna

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Simone Weil

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods

Thorstein Veblen

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

African Proverb

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. Donald Walters

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

Gabrielle Union

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe