I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Friedrich von Schiller

My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don't always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don't know what to do about it. Other times when I'm so proud of them I could bust.

Laura Kinsale

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Jarvis Cocker

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Epistemology models ontology.

John Polkinghorne

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Knut Hamsun

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Samuel Johnson

Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.

Fawad Khan

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Chuck Palahniuk