Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dave Del Dotto

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important

Dick Butkus

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Sofia Coppola

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Mason Cooley

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Publilius Syrus

Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.

Paulo Coelho

I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.

Graham Greene

This comes from dangling from the ceiling

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnet

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

Nick Hornby

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Thomas Aquinas