No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.