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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

James Dobson

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

Seve Ballesteros

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Laini Taylor

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Sue Monk Kidd

Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.

Deborah Harkness

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Thomas Carlyle

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

Leslie Caron