You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.

Source Unknown

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Walt Whitman

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Francesca Annis

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Pope Francis

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

Polykarp Kusch

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

Keith Urban

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.

Rau'Shee Warren

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham