I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

Karen Thompson Walker

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

Tiger Woods

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Stephen Fry

I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

Cat Cora

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai Stevenson

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

Ryan White

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

John Green

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

William Blake

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Theodore Parker

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes

what more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?

Martin Luther King Jr.