And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep.Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.

For pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Russ Carnahan

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Henry James

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wallace D. Wattles

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Soren Kierkegaard

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

Dave Van Ronk

Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

Heston Blumenthal

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

George Meredith