Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Debra Winger

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

Jane Austen

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith, In the Wor

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Steven Gilbert

Our passion is our strength.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.

Richard A. Nelson

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole...

Jane Addams