If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow up, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

Khloe Kardashian

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Patrick Stewart

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

Virginia Woolf

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Mary Decker Slaney