When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Oliver Goldsmith

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism

Henry Louis Mencken

I married beneath me; all women do.

Nancy Astor

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

Daniel Ek

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Susanne K. Langer, Mind, An Essa

At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

Neil Gaiman

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.

John Wesley, Sermon: The Differe

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca

You find happiness where you find it.

Anna Paquin

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill