"If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school."

“She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”

“I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.”

“Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.”

“The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.”

“When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.”

Source : "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.

“To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.196, Spiegel & Grau

“When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.”

“To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.”

Source : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, April 2, 1891.