I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

You can't just go around killing people.You're right. You can't go around killing people.

Cassandra Clare

She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

Orson Scott Card

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

George Eliot

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

Leonard Cohen

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Benjamin Franklin

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

The Laws of Clothing Shopping:If you like it, they don't have it in your size.If you like it and it fits, you can't afford it.If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it.If the shoe fits, its ugly.

Proverb

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Calvin Trillin

Blame is safer than praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Madeleine Albright