There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Camille Paglia

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

Franz Beckenbauer

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

J. K. Rowling

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

R. L. Stine

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Julie Bowen

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came

Peter De Vries

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Dwight D Eisenhower