A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Orlando Bloom

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

Larry Bird

Thinking that it was time to bring down the Monarch from his raptures to the level of common sense, I determined to endeavour to open up to him some glimpses of the truth, that is to say of the nature of things in Flatland.

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

Keith Ellison

This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.

Abraham Lincoln, Address before

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

Trevor Nunn

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe