"He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration."

“I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!”

“We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.”

“Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.476

“Don’t take yourself too seriously.”

“Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

“I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.”

“April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.”