It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Harold Pinter

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

Plato

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

Anthony Bourdain

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

H. L. Mencken

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

John Berger

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

I have long felt that there was a general impression in the non-scientific world, that the scientific world believes Science has discovered ways of explaining all the facts of Nature without adopting any definite belief in a Creator. I have never doubted that that impression was utterly groundless.

William Thomson

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Georges Bataille

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

John Madden

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Shaquille O'Neal

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Pope Paul VI