Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

Cassandra Clare

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.

Frank Zappa

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Kanye West

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Blaise Pascal

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Steve Jobs

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

Gordon Sumner

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy

And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Samuel Johnson

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw