"When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself."

“In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...”

“I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.”

“In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.”

“There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.”

“When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face”

Source : Thomas Southerne (1774). “The fate of Capua. The Spartan dame. Money the mistress. A letter from the Earl of Orrey to Thomas Southerne”, p.144

“When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.”

“It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.”

“Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (1913). “A story garden for little children”