Disputatious Def Quotes

#1. Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

Beilby Porteus

#2. Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Michelle Shocked

#3. 'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

Lena Headey

#4. Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need to move fashion forward when there's a reason to move fashion forward.

Tom Ford

#5. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Anne Rice

#6. History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.

Philip Kerr

#7. Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. t The husbands lived two hours away...

Charles Frazier

#8. Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon
the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination,
that all knowledge was but remembrance; so
Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is
but oblivion.
Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

Ruth Rendell

#10. An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

Franz Mehring

#11. Jacob was a gift from the gods.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. if N is large enough, it is virtually impossible to deduce p and q from N, and this is perhaps the most beautiful and elegant aspect of the RSA asymmetric cipher.

Simon Singh

#13. What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit.

Stephen King

#14. when all is said and done, we regret only the chances we didn't take, not the ones we did and failed at.

K. Bromberg