When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Walter Jon Williams

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

John Mayer

When I was born, the doctor said to my father, I'm sorry, we did everything we could but he still pulled thru.

Rodney Dangerfield

You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. Proverbs 13:10

Bible

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

George Eliot

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.

C. JoyBell C.

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

Abraham Zapruder

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

Amy Poehler

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fiona Shaw