In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Diogenes

Will, she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.

Cassandra Clare

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.

Hugh Stevenson Tigner

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

Tori Amos

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

Earth is 98% full. Please delete anyone you can.

Anon.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Paul Eldridge

I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.

Joe Jonas

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus