It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

John Gray

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

John Updike

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

Laura Schlessinger

A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.

Kevin Smith

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

Cassandra Clare

Apparently, conspiracy stuff is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Gore Vidal

Half of writing history is hiding the truth

Joss Whedon

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Nile Rodgers

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams