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.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Rita Warford

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Heart of my heart, were it more,More would be laid at your feet.Buck Mulligan, upon giving the old milk maid a coin

James Joyce, Ulysses

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

Joan Baez

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Cavendish

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Monica Lewinsky

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

Naomi Wolf

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

Oscar Wilde

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

Anita Shreve

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Oprah Winfrey

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris