In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.

Jane Austen

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Brooks Adams

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Trey Anastasio

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

Drew Bledsoe

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Joseph De Maistre

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Guy Kawasaki

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Harper Lee

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathaniel Emmons

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Frank Moore Colby

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Dave Parnas

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adve

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Charles Simmons