Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

John Morley

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Walter Bagehot

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dana Spiotta

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Federico Garcia Lorca

karapatan kong madapa at bumangon sa buhay nang walang tatawa, magagalit, magtatanong, o magbibilang kung ilang beses na 'kong nagkamali at ilang ulit ako dapat bumawi

Bob Ong

I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.

Robert Pattinson

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Mae West

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Right hates minorities and the Left hates the country,

Michael Lipsey

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

Camryn Manheim

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

C.S. Lewis