Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Walter Benjamin

AnatasiaYou Are My More My Love, My LifeChristian

E.L. James

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

Kahlil Gibran

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Deborah Moggach

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Wallace Shawn

The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.

Martin Firrell

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

J. Richard Munro

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King