Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.

Santosh Kalwar

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Robert Nathan

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.

Kimberly Novosel

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

Debra Messing

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

JeanAnthelme BrillatSavarin

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.

Lev Yilmaz

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Marcus V. Pollio

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson