The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Max Planck

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Margaret Carty

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

George Moore

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

Shinzo Abe

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa

He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm.

Angela Morrison

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Oscar Wilde

I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.

Melanie Chisholm

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Ice Cube

?''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

J.K. Rowling

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope