Decreeing Scripture Quotes

#1. Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.

Kristen Stewart

#2. Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.

Joe Abercrombie

#3. It's socialism that makes it bearable for us to live under capitalism.

Arnaldur Indridason

#4. Set down among these lice, this is how I keep the mold from my brain and find release from Fortune's malice. I am content to have her beat me down this way to see if she won't become ashamed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.

Paul Haggis

#6. Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

Martin McGuinness

#7. I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Jeffrey Archer

#8. He almost felt like he was betraying Julia. But what did he owe her? It's not like she even would have cared. And Professor Sunderland was here. He wanted somebody who was part of his new world. Julia had her chance.

Lev Grossman

#9. Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Betty Edwards

#10. I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Steven Wright

#11. Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

Harry Houdini