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Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as brilliancy from Jupiter.

ESTEBAN I always thought the English a very proper nation. ELOISE Not theatrically—their drama is extremely course. Really those Elizabethans!

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

And irony without humor is violence.

Afformations are empowering questions that immediately change your subconscious thought patterns from negative to positive.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Burdette would make coffee nervous," his manager once said.

The abolitionists study whiteness in order to abolish it—not to "reframe," or "redeem," or "deconstruct" it but to abolish it.

Some stories are your flowers. Others are your meat and bread. This story was neither flowers nor meat nor bread. It was extra, and it was impossible. It was their shared cursed inheritance.

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

And this fact again illustrates a major problem in Latour's formulation. If his article was meant to be a formal, or semiotic, reading of Einstein's text, it is not relevant to arbitrarily substitute words whose meanings are not justified by the text. Furthermore, the very premise of his "semiotic" reading of a text in translation begs the question of whether he is imputing meaning to the author or the translator.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

For such volunteers, there will be no question about signing or swearing an oath of allegiance to the British crown.

Britain's position is hopeless. The war is won by us. A reversal in the prospects of success is impossible.

The interview itself is normally conducted by a board of three to five people.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Once in Cambridge I heard one undergraduate in earnestness inform another that Wittgenstein delivered his lectures while lying on the floor and gazing

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Jokes and folklore and poetic metaphor, the wisdom of folly, tell the secret truth.

said Let's just regard the whole episode as overdetermined and forget it. This worked out to be a genius thing to say, evidently. He was relieved. We held hands across the table.