This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

Lydia Maria Child, Philothea: A

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Jeanne Moreau

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Patrick Ness

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Charles Simmons

I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Henry James

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Alfred Austin

Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Warren Farrell

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler