To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley, Miss Thriplow, in

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

Terri Windling

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Kobe Bryant

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rosetwice. Everything had two shadows.

Steven Wright

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

Stephen Vizinczey

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Vince Lombardi

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Dean

Beauty was darkness till she came. Then paint her eyes, whose active light Shall make the former shadows bright, And with their every beam supply New day, to draw her picture by.

James Shirley, To the Painter Pr

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Frank Lloyd Wright