I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Oliver Hudson

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Elizabeth Gaskell

There hasn't been peace on earth because people cant seem to figure out that the real enemy is the people manipulating world events from behind the scenes for their own selfish interests.

James Dye

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

Lionel Trilling

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

Laura Linney

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Catherine Bell

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Horace Walpole

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Benjamin Disraeli, LothairGenera

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Queen Victoria

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Michel de Montaigne