An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Edsger Dijkstra

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Don Marquis

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Jean Baudrillard

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Joseph Barth

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick Wilcox

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Giacomo Casanova

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

Ronald Reagan

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

Robert Atkins

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

J.K. Rowling