The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

B. B. King

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Oscar Wilde

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

Cassandra Clare

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Margaret Atwood

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

King Abdullah II

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C.S. Lewis

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Dick Dale

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Edmund Burke

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Gaston Bachelard

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Julio Cortazar