Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

Jason Aldean

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

Ryan White

The general thrust these days is: Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, it didn't work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there's nothing to be done about it and anyway fuck it, who cares? But let me put it this way-the dead are still looking at us, waiting for us to acknowledge our part in their murder.

Harold Pinter, It Never Happened

We aren't cool and never will be.

Chris Martin

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Leonard Boswell

The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread.

Arabic Proverb

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Ralph Inge

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Alton Brown