Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

Many from the ignorance of these Maxims, and an inconsiderate zeal unto Truth, have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as Trophies unto the enemies of Truth: A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Browne

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Donald Rumsfeld

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

Mandy Moore

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Benjamin Franklin

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Al Capp

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

John Barton

It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Fred Frith

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.

Kentetsu Takamori