Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

John le Carre

How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

Gerard De Nerval

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Lec, More Unkempt Thou

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.

Two Chainz

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Jack Kingston

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Samuel Johnson

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Sherilyn Fenn

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel