You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Joseph Addison

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

Neil Gaiman

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

James Taylor

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

Joseph Campbell

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

C.S. Lewis

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today....

Benjamin Franklin

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Morris Raphael Cohen

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

Jeannette Walls

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Wendell Berry