When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Samuel Pepys

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Alfred North Whitehead

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Henry David Thoreau

Anger, pain, passion, injustice and truth - all taught me to scream.

Lacey Sturm

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

Shania Twain

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

William Faulkner

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Tom Wolfe

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Immanuel Kant

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Anatole France