Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Ralph Richardson, "Time Magazine

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Amy Grant

With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Horace Walpole

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Terry Eagleton

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.

Ann Patchett

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

George Bancroft

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Mitch McConnell

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

Kate Moss