You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

The thunder of love is unassailable.

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

If we had less people who don't know what they are talking about acting like they know what they are talking about, then that's one step closer to making the world a better place.

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon

I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty.

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.