Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Damon Runyon

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Leo Tolstoy

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

Melissa Bradley

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Eamon de Valera

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.

Robert Downey Jr.

One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football.

Marty Ragaway

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Adlai E. Stevenson

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

Mark Twain

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake