From their experience, or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie
I'm the original take-orders girl.
Judy Garland
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy and of powerful operation, and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.
Jane Austen
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate, they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
