Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Eliza ''Mother'' Stewart

Life is absurd

Albert Camus

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Marcus Valerius Martial

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

James Wolcott

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

June Allyson

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Albert Camus

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

Jane Krakowski

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Cecelia Ahern

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Francis Bacon, 1603

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

James Fenimore Cooper

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Eddie Vedder