I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Gloria Stuart

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.?

Jarod Kintz

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Karl Malone

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.

Thomas Paine

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Douglas Adams

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

Julie Burchill

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Felicity Kendal

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Robert Cialdini