I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

Acting doesn't suffice.

He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.

What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.