I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

Will Estes

Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.Final words of Stephen Daedalus

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

Audrey Niffenegger

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

J.K. Rowling

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Jeffrey Kluger

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Eric Hoffer

I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

Antonio Banderas

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.

Alex Flinn