I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Leo Tolstoy

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

Christopher Paolini

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

Tim Ryan

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Neil Gaiman

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

Toby Jones

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Artur Schnabel

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann von Goethe

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Lauren Conrad