Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing, ”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

That's all nonsense, " said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

all i want it's a pièce of your heart not all of it

The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in bed with me?

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.