The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

Daniel Craig

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

Olivier Theyskens

He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

James Thurber

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Manuel Puig

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Marco Rubio

Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

Bill Kristol

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The hypocrite, among other things, can be a deformed ambassador of the truth.

James Wood (critic)

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Michelle Obama

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Edward Tufte

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

Angie Martinez