The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Red Auerbach

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Patricia Highsmith

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Jeff Daniels

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Alton Brown

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Ted Rall

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

W. Winwood Reade

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Sargent Shriver