Just thought I’d find some more prompts. It amuses me for some reason.

1. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
2. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
3. Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
4. No sane man will dance.
5. Better a broken promise than none at all.
6. No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
7. In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
8. Hunger is the handmaid of genius.
9. The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
10. Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defence.
11. It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain
12. Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
13. Let’s face it, who isn’t less fortunate then I?
14. What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
15. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
16. Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
17. Modesty died when clothes were born.
18. Therein lies the defect of revenge: it’s all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
19. I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
20. Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil.
21. Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
22. For the nature of women is closely allied to art.
23. Lie to me.
24. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
25. A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.
26. There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
27. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
28. Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
29. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
30. Our life is made by the death of others.
31. Water is the driving force of all nature.
32. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
33. The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
34. Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
35. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
36. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
37. Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.
38. The lies that I have loved and actions I have hated.
39. People react to fear, not love – they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
40. He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
41. Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
42. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
43. They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master.
44. We’re all God sometimes, aren’t we?
45. Whats the secret? Sometimes I sing to them.
46. Love truth, and pardon error.
47. Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
48. No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
49. This isn’t good or bad. It’s just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
50. I may be dead, but I’m still pretty.
51. I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it’s not a waste of time.
52. No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
53. Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
54. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
55. Don’t play dumb. You’re not as good at it as I am.
56. The shades and shadows undulate in my perception.
57. War is full of firsts… and lasts.
58. If you’re going to make stuff up, go mental.

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The Daily Record has a new interview with actress Helena Bonham Carter where she briefly mentions her part in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. While most of the article focuses on her past career, Ms. Bonham Carter refers to the new Potter movie, calling author J.K. Rowling “a genius.” The actress also goes on to refer to her new role as the deatheater Bellatrix Lestrange who causes so much havoc at the Ministry of Magic.

“And Bella,” says Helena with undisguised delight, “is a very bad, bad, bad witch.”