Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously, ’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings, ' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

What's money without happiness?

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!