Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Aldous Huxley

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Rachel Roy

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: There is no indispensable man.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

Vera Brittain

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

George Eliot

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot question like,

Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad, ch. 5,

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb