Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

John Lasseter

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Living as human being and as a divinity.moving from tension into relaxation,from relaxation into trance,from trance into a more intense contact with other people.from that contact back into tension and so on,Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.

Paulo Coelho

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Kate Millett

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Sharon Tate

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Mary Webb

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Joseph Addison