It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,In evry Ear it spread, on evry Tongue it grew.

Alexander Pope

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

John Greenleaf Whittier

There is safety in numbers. And science. Clone your way to being safe. Nobody can protect you like you. And you and you and you.

Jarod Kintz

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

James Russell Lowell

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Richard Henry Stoddard

Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I love working.

Gloria Stuart

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

Thomas Jane

He who has love in his breast has ever the spurs at his flanks.

Bernardo Dovizi