Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

V?" Butch said. "Don't leave, okay?" "Never." V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a male.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Bill Maher can be pretty good, except when he gets "important." Maher's all over the place politically.