My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Bernard Baruch

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Erica Jong

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

Connie Stevens

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

Albert Pike

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Orson Scott Card

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Giorgio de Chirico

[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

George Orwell

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges