There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.

Bill Bryson

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Samuel Beckett

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

Sloane Crosley

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Orson Scott Card

It takes all sorts to make a world.

English Proverb

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

Rae Hachton

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr.

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

Cat Deeley