Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean Paul Sartre

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Paul Ryan

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Melanie Laurent

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maurice Blanchot

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

John Galliano

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Terry Eagleton

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Edward Gibbon

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

John Ruskin

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.

Elisabeth Rohm