I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him…

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius,…

— William Shakespeare

“My mother laughed and told me she was only doing what mothers have always done for their sons. Then she told me that it…

— Nicholas Sparks

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying…

— Aesop

“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded…

— John Cowper Powys

“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected…

— Kevin McLeod

As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,…

— Richard Branson

“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took…

— Joe Niemczura

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a…

— Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

— Jessica Yu

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

— Beryl Markham

I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests…

— Richard Branson

I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody…

— Ben Eine

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

— Russell Howard