Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

Hattie McDaniel

I looked Death right in the face.

Travis Barker

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.

Michael Grant

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Dame Edith Evans

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

Thomas Somerville

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Mark Hoppus

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Good thoughts can become reality with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

the action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter

Cassandra Clare

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Jerzy Kosinski