"What is, is; and what ain't, ain't"

-- Joseph Granville

“It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.”
“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
“As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.”

Source : "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Abstinence)". TV Series, June 5, 2006.
“The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.”
“I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.”
“Whyâ€™s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? Youâ€™re not that cute.â€ (Arianna to Evie)”
“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
“We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.”

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