I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.

Laini Taylor

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Henry Ward Beecher

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Alison Bechdel

The future is the past returning through another gate.

Arnold Glasgow

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Haile Gebrselassie

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Woody Hayes

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Phil Collins

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

George Matthew Adams

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Alfred Adler

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Iris Murdoch