She sounds very beautiful and mysterious. I say this because you told me she is beautiful, and little else, leaving the rest to mystery, and thereby making her very mysterious.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Larry Elder

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo DaVinci

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

All authority belongs to the people

Thomas Jefferson

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

Linda M. Godwin

Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts.

Thomas Pynchon

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

Demetri Martin

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind. -Hera, goddess of marriage

Rick Riordan

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Tanith Lee

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

Oscar Wilde

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

Benjamin Netanyahu

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Mia Wasikowska