Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.

Nick Faldo

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

Joe Morton

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

Emeril Lagasse

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Jerry Saltz

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

John Stuart Mill

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

Alysha Speer

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

Helmut Walcha