Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
Dick Martin
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Everett D. Martin
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur
Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.
Jerry Martin
I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!
Alice Englert
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Justice is having and doing what is one's own
Plato
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Judith Martin
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
Zach Galifianakis
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
Terry Pratchett
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.
Louis Claude de St. Martin
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
Tracey Gold
Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.
Stephen Richards
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
I never see the prettiest thing -A cherry bough gone white with Spring -But what I think, How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.
Dorothy Parker, 'Cherry White',
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
Cate Blanchett
Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all year.
Ogden Nash, Thar She Blows (1949
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire
My Vegas act is how I make my money.
Rita Rudner
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of R
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
Michael K. Simpson
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the seasons of snows and sins;The days dividing lover and lover,The light that loses, the night that wins;And time remembered is grief forgotten,And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,And in green underwood and coverBlossom by blossom the spring begins.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atal
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometines as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.
John Morley
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
Neil Gaiman
I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
Lee Child
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I knew a girl that was so ugly that... I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.
Rodney Dangerfield
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
Richard Pryor
Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky
Vladimir Nabokov, The Defense fo
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron
In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was flogging a dead horse.
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