"Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals."

“I never really considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school.”

“Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.”

Source : Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.65, Vintage

“I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.”

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

“It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.”

“Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.”

“I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.”

Source : "Superman Returns - Brandon Routh interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

“You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2735, Penguin