Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Laura Linney

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Robert Engman

The dead should not rule the living

Thomas Jefferson

When we parcel heaven and fence eternity, when the wildness is all tamed and torn, don't let me live to see.

Connie Dover

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Agatha Christie

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

J. K. Rowling

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

Robert Burns

Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

Ethan Hawke

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

Stephen King

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

Karen Armstrong