I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors

I want you to be able to me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.

I lean all my weight on the porcelain ledge, I draw my face closer until it touches the mirror. The eyes, nose, and mouth disappear. Nothing is left. Brown wrinkles show on each side of the feverish s...

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

Edward: After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply. 'Women bear the brunt of poverty. What choices does a woman have in life...

Cooper nodded. I’d so do this shit, if Farah let me. Vaughn made the sound of a snapping whip and the whipped guys frowned at him. He just smiled. Ah, having control over my balls is so wonderful. You...

Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.

Blackmailers are never satisfied. His laughter faded into bitterness.Aren't they? How do you know?His words were empty, hollow. When you're the brother of a duke and your wife died in mysterious circu...

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Aelin said to Fenrys, We’ll only invite him to Orynth on holidays. So he can ruin the festivities? Fenrys scowled. I, for one, cherish my holidays. I don’t need a misanthrope raining on them.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

Programming is a social activity.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.