The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

For one moment seek a lesser beauty and a lesser grace, but you will find no peace in the end save in her presence.

H.D.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Matt LeBlanc

Time is an illusion.

Albert Einstein

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

Charles Baudelaire

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Leo Tolstoy

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Picabo Street

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

J.K. Rowling

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Josh Hutcherson

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.

Peter Wastholm