From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.

Anon.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Kurt Vonnegut

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Harry Crews

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

Demi Lovato

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

Television it will keep your a-s wishin' forever.

Ice Cube

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Leo Tolstoy

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

Harold Klemp

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.

Jane Austen

My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.

Rachel Bilson

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith