Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Gertrude Stein

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Antonio Gramsci

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

Deontay Wilder

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Julie Taymor

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.

Peg Bracken

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Larry McMurtry

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Huxley

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

Greg Kinnear

Everyone's Scared of Something...But Only Some People Have the Balls to Admit it.

EmilyStafford 3

Imagine others complexly.

John Green

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

James Graham

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Iain Banks