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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. — Henry Watson Fowler

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs. — Boyd K. Packer

When the world around is ready to back one unconditionally, one can become as unreasonable, unfair, and coldly sadistic as one likes. — Pawan Mishra

I don't listen to Justin Bieber or that crazy meat-wearin' bitch, so I guess you'll just have to do without. — J.A. Redmerski

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd. — Sean Booth

And it was understood that Scottish Borderers did not take kindly to outside Wardens. The oustanding example was the unfortunate Frenchman, Anthony Darcy, the Sieur de la Bastie, who in 1516 was ill-advised enough to accept the Wardenry of all the Scottish Marches, with particular responsibility in the east. This was Hume country, and they regarded Darcy with "horrid resentment". He seems to have been a brave, honest and conscientious Warden, which no doubt rendered him all the more odious. The outcome was that the Humes finally caught up with him near Duns, cut off his head, and took it home in triumph, tied by its long locks to a saddle-bow. — George MacDonald Fraser

Security, a hypothetical, remaining to be proved. — Lauren Groff

I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which. — Joss Whedon

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work. — Peggy Lipton

The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. — Adam Smith