"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "
— Kurt Vonnegut

"...yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. "
— James Joyce (Ulysses)

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously"
— Oscar Wilde

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
— Winston Churchill