I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear. There is, said Jojen. What? The past. The future. The truth.

George R. R. Martin

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

Mary Wortley Montagu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Lao Tzu

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

Smokey Robinson

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.

Robert J. Ringer

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

Nick Clegg

I'd sleep outside naked in the blizzard,for you.

Ellen Hopkins

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Thomas Carlyle

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

Ovid

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

Lewis H. Lapham