Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Edmond de Goncourt

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other---by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.

Oscar Wilde

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Professor Blackie

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Marcel Duchamp

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Nicki Minaj

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Martin Luther

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

Gary Bauer

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

Rebecca Goldstein