Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

Khloe Kardashian

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Andrea Arnold

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Jeff Bridges

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Jared Leto

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

John Madden

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

Paul Martin

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Vladimir Lenin

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

David Eddings

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

Albert Camus