Every plant knows this: It

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

People dance at any age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Noam Chomsky

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Gerard Depardieu

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Rod Stewart

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Sting

The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Rosamond Lehman

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Paula Deen