Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

William Shakespeare

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Soren Kierkegaard

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Dean Koontz

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.

Kurt Vonnegut

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Helen Mirren

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

David Bailey

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

Christina Ricci

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Shania Twain