"Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave."

“Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.2, BOA Editions, Ltd.

“All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.”

“Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.”

“And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.”

Source : Kresley Cole (2011). “Dreams of a Dark Warrior”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

“Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!”

“[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.”

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.”

Source : George Jacob Holyoake (1850). “The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography, Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy”, p.37

“I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.”