If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

J. B. Priestley

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Frank Dane

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Eric Alterman

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

George Eliot

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Octavio Paz

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

Shia LaBeouf

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Terry Goodkind

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

Madeleine Stowe