We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

Kingsley Amis

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Source Unknown

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Will Rogers

I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.

Debra Messing

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

Drew Barrymore

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.

Source Unknown

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

Ron Fournier

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

Laurieann Gibson

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Ernest Hemingway

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Mencius

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Will Durst