We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Ogden Nash

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

David Byrne

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

A. A. Milne

I am in love with Larry David.

Kathy Griffin

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Gabriel Byrne

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Vaclav Havel

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

Peter Singer