Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Mercedes Lackey

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Mitt Romney

I look at Liv Tyler and think It's not fair, because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

Tori Spelling

He who excuses himself, accuses himself.

Gabriel Meurier

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Gene Simmons

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Henry David Thoreau

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

Bobby Sherman

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf