The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other peoples minds as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

But a wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that can be bought.

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value, you have a purpose. All is well.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

My reason for getting into the film business was a Spider-Man comic called 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' when I was a kid; it changed my life.

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Having a goal and having a dream are different.

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

All I can do is put on my armor and brace for the arrows.