I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.

François Rabelais

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie, Endless Night b

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

Danica McKellar

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Anthony D'Angelo

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Stephen Chow

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Barbara Jordan

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Robert Cormier

I'm so positive.

Rickie Lee Jones

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner