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I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her.
- Ryan — Elizabeth Scott

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. — Michael Keaton

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine

There was always something worse than the trailer park, always room to drop lower. Residents — Matthew Desmond

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist. — Hippolyte Taine

I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros. — David Pleat

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff! — Bob Goff

In a perfect patch of paradise he stays immobile for an eternity while the predawn breath strokes his skin and kisses each vertebrae down his spine. — Poppet

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. — Bono

Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey, — Matthew Quick

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles. — Hippolyte Taine

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once. — Hippolyte Taine

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. — Hippolyte Taine

There are four varieties in society - the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel. — Hippolyte Taine

After the collection of facts, the search for causes. — Hippolyte Taine

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. — Hippolyte Taine

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! — Hippolyte Taine

I remember a story about an Irish warrior who killed his son by mistake but when he realised he didn't mind that much because it served the son right. — Max Porter

The requiem has started, and when the last melody plays, the only applause will be sweet, eternal silence. — Julie Kagawa