We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

Say not that you

Anon.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Ada Louise Huxtable

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Alexander Pope

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

John Green

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Judith Martin

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Carol Ann Duffy

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.

Elizabeth Hardwick

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

Charles S. Peirce

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Edmond de Goncourt

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

But as for those who live without knowing Him and without seeking Him... this religion obliges us always to regard them, so long as they are in this life, as capable of the grace which can enlighten them...

Blaise Pascal