Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Walter Pater

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

Rock Hudson

A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

Henry Miller, The Books In My Li

The proverb is something musty.

William Shakespeare

Real artists ship.

Steve Jobs

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Bill Cosby

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Marcus Garvey

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Temple Grandin

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad