When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Leighton Meester

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Eden Ahbez

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Bernard Baruch

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Stuart Sutherland

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Vera Farmiga

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

Emily Watson

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Thomas Carlyle

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Orson Scott Card

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

George Orwell