In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something - and the switchboard operator knows everything.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Sophocles

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Brigham Young

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

Ted Solotaroff

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.[p214]

John Green

I don't really trust a sane person.

Lyle Alzado

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Jay Trachman

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Johann von Goethe

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

Elias Canetti

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Leonardo da Vinci

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

Lara Flynn Boyle