Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories

Polybius

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

Sarah Jessica Parker

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Frank Stella

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

Paul Reiser

Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

Lily Rabe

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

Rick Perry

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

David Lloyd