The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

Mindy Kaling

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

His (Cardinal ) own opinion was his law

William Shakespeare

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Evelyn Waugh

Trust not to much to appearances.

Virgil

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

William Ellery Channing

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

George Saunders

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

Marlee Matlin

Oh, softest is the cheek's love-ray When seen by moonlight hours

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This quasi-religious function of the theory is, I think, what lies behind many of the extreme statements that you have doubtless encountered from some scientists opposing any critical analysis of neo-Darwinism in the classroom. It is also why many scientists make public statements about the theory that they would not defend privately to other scientists like me.

James A. Shapiro

I don't pay much attention to sports.

Jack Abramoff