Love always leaves a significant mark
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
Kurt Vonnegut
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
Molly Ivins
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
Tom Vilsack
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of eternity; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
George Orwell
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Herman Cain
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it
C.S. Lewis
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
Charles Dickens
Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
Wolfgang Puck
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.
George Bernard Shaw
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Plato
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Cavett Robert
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
Wesley Snipes
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower
Albert Camus
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Rowan D. Williams
War is at its best barbarism.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.
Rob Walton
The triumph of hope over experience
Samuel Johnson
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
I was at this restaurant. The sign said Breakfast Anytime. So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.
Steven Wright
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