He that seeks trouble never misses.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

Jonathan Swift

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Juan Goytisolo

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Bob Barr

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Carmen Electra

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

Thomas Jefferson

The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

John Berger, The Soul and the Op

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

H. L. Mencken

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Sue Monk Kidd

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Neil Gaiman