I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Charles Dickens

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

David Levithan

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Proverb

No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

John S. Bonnell

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Henry Fielding

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Ogden Nash

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Mignon McLaughlin

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

John Muir

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Ali ibn Abi Talib