She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn

If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

Paul Walker

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it

George Orwell

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Anon.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

Gabrielle Union

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably fall in love, as it is called, with each other; but at six months end if you would throw them both into public life wh

Samuel Johnson

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Francis Picabia

Pain is like a fabri, the stronger it is, the more its worth

John Green

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.

Christopher Hitchens

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

Tom Robbins

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Leo Tolstoy