It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Oscar Wilde

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

B. R. Hayden

My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.

Coco J. Ginger

All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.

Michel de Montaigne

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Anwar Sadat

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

André Gide

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Brian Eno

Like a wild animal, the truth is often too powerful to remain caged. -From the Candor faction manifesto

Veronica Roth