Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

Chloe Moretz

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Jean Cocteau

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Bernard Cornwell

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Bill Cosby

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

Mary J. Blige

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Paula Radcliffe

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.

William Shakespeare

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Havelock Ellis

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

Albert Einstein