Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

Thomas Fuller

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

John Morley

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

Norton Juster

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

Martin Goldsmith

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Robert Frost

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

Stephen Malkmus

An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

Aldous Huxley

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Renata Adler

Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

Alison Brie

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Mike Krzyzewski